Allison Craig
Engineering Manager at Figma
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAllison Craig is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading cross-platform frontend teams and shipping polished search and UI experiences at scale. Based in Philadelphia, she progressed through hands-on frontend engineering into management at Slack—driving a React/Redux migration, building reusable design-system components, and reducing Android autocomplete latency by 400ms at P95. She excels at aligning Product, Design, ML, and Backend stakeholders while mentoring engineers (responsible for multiple promotions) and fostering team retention. A former software engineering fellow from Hackbright with a background in fashion and visual merchandising, she brings a rare blend of user-focused design sensibility and technical leadership to product development. Now at Figma, she continues to marry craftsmanship and systems thinking to deliver delightful, high-performance interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Fellow, Software Engineering Fellow at Hackbright AcademyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Interdisciplinary Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Interdisciplinary Studies at California Institute of Integral StudiesAssociate of Arts (A.A.) Fashion Design, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Fashion Design at FIDM
English
Github Skills (4)
pattern9
react7
css7
javascript6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
allisonkcraig/good-deed
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
allisonkcraig/EasyDrafter
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Project for Hackbright to draft clothing pattern blocks.
Contributions:143 commits, 124 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
hackbrightreactcssjavascriptclothing
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