Allison Casey
Senior Software Engineer at Two Chairs
Culver City, California, United States
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Top SchoolAllison Casey is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack and concurrent systems, currently modernizing infrastructure at Two Chairs. She specializes in Python, functional programming, and maintainable architecture, and has a proven track record replacing legacy test systems with highly concurrent Python+Redis solutions. Allison contributes to the Hy Lisp-in-Python project—adding pprint integration, documentation tooling, and Sphinx extensions—reflecting her taste for elegant language design and niche open-source work. She pairs hands-on backend development and technical writing with front-end experience in React and RxJS, enabling end-to-end delivery. Based in Culver City, she blends pragmatic engineering with a long-standing curiosity for Lisps and language-oriented tooling.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Vermont
Github Skills (9)
macros10
metaprogramming10
python10
hy10
sphinx10
documentation10
lisp10
compiler-compiler9
compiler9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hylang/hy
Nov 2020 - May 2022
A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:108 reviews, 151 commits, 77 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Allison significantly contributed to the `hy` project by adapting and integrating Python's `pprint` module to work with Hy object syntax, creating a new Hy contrib module. They also authored and integrated documentation, including autogenerating a cheatsheet index and migrating existing documentation into docstrings. Furthermore, the user added and improved documentation through the addition of the Sphinxcontrib HyDomain extension and made corrections to the existing documents.
macrospythondialectmetaprogrammingcompiler
allison-casey/hy
Oct 2020 - May 2022
A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
Contributions:2 PRs, 446 pushes, 64 branches in 1 year 7 months
pythondialectmacroslisp-interpreterlisp
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