Summary
Alison Abreu-Garcia is a Solutions Software Engineer with 13 years of full-stack experience, now at Netflix after a multi-year engineering leadership run at the ACLU where she modernized CMS architecture and led a web platform serving 50+ affiliates. She brings deep hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, Vue/Nuxt, SQL databases, Docker, and Linux, and has a strong track record of improving developer experience through componentized design systems and Storybook-driven UI libraries. Alison blends technical delivery with people leadership—hiring, coaching, and setting strategic roadmaps and success metrics—and has repeatedly translated complex stakeholder needs into sustainable, reusable systems for cultural institutions and nonprofits. Her work often sits at the intersection of content, design, and operations, from integrating ticketing systems and digital signage to building ETL pipelines that power APIs. Trained in computer science at Vassar, she also teaches and prototypes new approaches to improve velocity and reduce duplication, demonstrating a pragmatic curiosity that drives long-term technical debt reduction.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Vassar College