Alison Rowland
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Stitch Fix
Joliet, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAlison Rowland is a pragmatic Senior Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building data platforms, pipelines and resilient distributed systems, currently shaping merchandise and ERP integration at Stitch Fix. She blends hands-on refactoring and prototyping with strategic technical advisement to directors and cross-functional partners, reducing error rates 95% and cutting maintenance burden by 75% on legacy systems. Her career spans government civic-tech (18F, Sunlight Foundation, Presidential Innovation Fellows) to fintech and retail, giving her a rare fluency in policy-facing data projects and high-throughput loan and inventory systems. She excels at translating messy business processes into codified metrics and observable architectures that unlock new regions and products. Outside core engineering she’s applied Lean Startup and accelerator leadership to spin up validated businesses, reflecting a penchant for turning experiments into production-grade outcomes. Based in Joliet, Illinois, she pairs data-first engineering with civic-minded open-government work evident throughout her public-sector contributions.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Linguistics Music, B.A. Linguistics Music at Stony Brook University
German, French
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Github Skills (143)
rest10
active10
restful-api10
javascript9
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python9
manual-testing9
openapi9
css9
deprecated9
mysql9
kitematic8
dashboard8
testing8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
arowla/API-All-the-X
Feb 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 9 years 1 month
arowla/ITA_Principal_Travel
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:96 pushes, 25 branches in 4 months
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