Allie Laabs
Founding Developer Advocate
Novato, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAllie Laabs is a founding Developer Advocate and seasoned technologist with 25 years of experience building developer platforms, tools, and systems across games, consumer apps, and enterprise software. She blends hands-on engineering, product management, and developer relations—having owned SDK programs at Autodesk, led internal build pipelines in games, and managed developer-facing APIs at Tesla. An avid open-source contributor, she’s improved backend functionality for well-known projects like Habitica and keeps a sprawling home lab to prototype AI integrations, smart home systems, and immersive art installations. Allie excels at translating between technical teams and business stakeholders, identifying systemic issues, and architecting pragmatic solutions that respect long-term maintainability. Known for learning new domains quickly, she thrives in the ambiguous space between teams and technologies, making disparate systems work harmoniously.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
2,142reputation
269kreached
18answers
10questions
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
expressjs10
apidoc10
api10
nodejs10
translation9
mongodb-database9
internationalization9
mongodb9
moc8
mochajs8
testing8
html6
version-control6
php6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HabitRPG/habitica
May 2014 - May 2014
A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Allie focused on improving the backend functionality of the Habitica application. Their commits addressed critical issues such as mana validation for spell casting, which involved modifying the `user.js` controller. They also enhanced the internationalization of the app by handling file loading from the locale directories, including the modification of the `i18n.js` file to ignore specific types of files in these directories. Furthermore, they updated API tests to ensure mana is used when casting spells.
trackerexpressvuereactjsrole
OverloadUT/SleekXMPP
Apr 2019 - Aug 2022
Python 2.6+/3.1+ XMPP Library
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 4 months
pythonxmppxmpp-librarypython-2python-2-6
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