Allison Patt
Photographer at Lyoness Photography
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Lyon is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience building backend microservices, LIMS and pipeline platforms for genomics and bioinformatics teams. She combines deep technical chops in Python, cloud-native architectures, and full-stack development with a background in education and nonprofit leadership, which informs her collaborative, people-centered approach to engineering. Allison has moved from startups to scaleups and now clinical operations at GeneDx, repeatedly owning API design, integrations, and data-driven tooling that support high-throughput scientific workflows. Beyond code, she founded a successful photography business and has completed ambitious adventures—from visiting 40 North American national parks to trekking to Everest Base Camp—demonstrating curiosity and endurance that show up in long-running projects. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex domain requirements into pragmatic, testable systems while mentoring teams and reducing technical debt.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Fellowship Software Engineering, Software Engineering Fellowship Software Engineering at Hackbright AcademyPalo Alto High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at Stanford University
SpanishGithub contributions (5)
lyoness1/interview-cake
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:65 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
lyoness1/frienergy
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:65 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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