Allison Light
Head Of Product at Adora
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAllison Light is a product leader with a decade of experience building AI-infused content and consumer products, currently leading AI-powered adtech at Adora. She has a track record of launching and scaling 0→1 systems—from helping bring Microsoft’s first AI APIs to market and shipping Zillow’s 3D Home product to architecting Pinterest Trends and cross-platform content systems that moved platform engagement and revenue. Allison blends technical fluency in computer vision and analytics with cross-functional orchestration, routinely aligning engineering, research, design, and go-to-market teams to drive measurable growth. Known for turning maker instincts into community-building, she applies product thinking to human-centered experiences both in work and in life, from developer ecosystems to grassroots events. She holds a CS/CE degree from the University of Virginia and a pattern of creating high-adoption products that bridge deep technical complexity with elegant user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Magna cum laude, Computer Engineering & Computer Science, B.S., Magna cum laude, Computer Engineering & Computer Science at University of Virginia
Stackoverflow
13reputation
0reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (48)
cognitive-services10
prosody10
azure-cognitive-services10
text-to-speech10
vision-api10
sdk10
mhealth10
speech-synthesis9
speech-to-text9
api9
speech9
fitbit9
transformer8
windows-sdk8
face-api8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/ProjectOxford-ClientSDK
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
This repo has moved :house: Visit our website for the latest SDKs & Samples
Contributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 months
housevisitsdkssdkmhealth
microsoft/Cognitive-Samples-FootnoteBot
May 2016 - Aug 2016
A simple bot written using Bot Framework and Entity Linking Intelligence Service.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 months
watsonservice-intelligenceentitybotentity-linking
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.