Summary
Allison Hall is a seasoned front-end leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling user-facing web platforms, currently directing Platform Engineering at Desmos Studio PBC. She has a strong track record at brightwheel and LinkedIn, where she progressed from hands-on frontend engineer to manager and director roles, leading teams that shipped billing, payments, and reusable frontend component libraries. Allison blends practical React and JavaScript expertise with product-minded systems thinking, driving CI/CD, SLIs, and technical backlogs to improve reliability and cross-team collaboration. Passionate about education, she repeatedly connects her technical work to learning initiatives—creating DEI groups, teaching students, and running a blog focused on outreach. Not obvious from titles: she’s scaled teams from single-digit ICs to multiple pods while formalizing QA and career development practices that other orgs adopted.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley