Allison Barbu
Senior Software Engineer at LedgerDomain
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Barbu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bellevue, Washington with nine years of professional experience building web-scale products and services. She transitioned from a PhD in Ancient History into software engineering, bringing a rare strength in decoding complex systems—an affinity rooted in reconstructing and translating ancient inscriptions and artifacts. At HubSpot she progressed from intern to software engineer and now contributes at LedgerDomain, demonstrating steady growth in backend and full-stack development. Her early work includes Ruby on Rails and React app development with integrations for third-party APIs and AWS-backed storage, and she enjoys mentoring academics moving into tech. Comfortable bridging rigorous research habits with product-focused engineering, she combines meticulous attention to detail with a collaborative, mentorship-oriented approach.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ancient History, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ancient History at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolBachelors, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Magna cum laude, Bachelors, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Magna cum laude at Brown University
German, French, Greek, Latin
Github Skills (12)
hubspot10
vscode-extension10
cli10
language-extensions9
hubspot-cms8
hubl8
ide7
visual-studio-code5
hubspot-api4
oauth2
nodejs2
search-engine2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kemmerle/under-the-table
May 2019 - Jun 2019
A search engine for health inspection reports for restaurants in the Boston/Cambridge area.
Contributions:92 commits, 18 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
search-engine
HubSpot/cms-event-registration
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:177 commits, 53 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 months
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