Allison Lacker
Principal Software Engineer at Aasterisk
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Lacker is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web products and leading engineering teams from early-stage features to operational maturity. She has held progressive leadership roles including CTO and VP of Engineering at Binti, where she grew the engineering org from 5 to 30+ engineers and led product, QA, security, and operations. Her background spans hands-on full‑stack work (Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch/Solr, JavaScript/Python) and cross-functional leadership—she’s moved between engineering and business roles to own product-market fit and customer success. Allison also coaches executives and engineers through her consultancy Aasterisk, blending mentorship with pragmatic technical guidance. Based in Oakland, she brings a mix of startup grit, large-product experience from Eventbrite, and a history of impactful accessibility and search improvements that quietly increased growth and retention.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (11)
geocoding10
mongoid9
administration8
rails8
ruby8
activeadmin8
ruby-on-rails7
arbre7
has-many6
activemodel2
activerecord2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ALacker/solr-algorithm-visualization
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
binti-family/geocoder
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Complete Ruby geocoding solution.
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 7 days
geocodingrubygeo
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