Allison Mcmillan
Founder & CEO at Leopard.FYI
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Mcmillan is a human-centered engineering leader and founder who helps organizations scale without sacrificing culture, drawing on 25+ years of leadership across for-profit and nonprofit sectors. As CEO of Tavlin Consulting and a serial fractional VP of Engineering, she designs practical playbooks for delivery, hiring, and meetings that actually get teams aligned and productive. Former director-level leader at GitHub and VP roles at multiple startups, she blends hands-on engineering experience (Ruby on Rails, Python, React) with facilitation and change-management skills to solve real-world team problems. She’s an experienced conference speaker, nonprofit board contributor, and open-source collaborator who has shipped features for community-serving projects like the Human Essentials inventory dashboard. Known for turning messy human dynamics into clear next steps, Allison pairs strategic rigor with empathy to build sustainable, high-performing teams.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science and Near East Studies, BA Political Science and Near East Studies at University of MichiganFacilitation Certification at the Institute for Transformational Leadership, Facilitation Certification at the Institute for Transformational Leadership at Georgetown Universityextensive experience Focus on change management management consulting leadership development, extensive experience Focus on change management management consulting leadership development at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Arabic, Italian, French, Spanish, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (9)
rspec10
ruby-rails10
dashboard10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
front-end-development9
open-source8
nom6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/human-essentials
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Human Essentials is an inventory management system for diaper, incontinence, and period-supply banks. It supports them in distributing to partners, tracking inventory, and reporting stats and analytics.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Allison primarily contributed to the development of the dashboard functionality, including the addition of a new "Diaper Drives" box and related data display. Their work involved creating a partial view and modifying the dashboard's index page to incorporate the new component, as well as writing tests for the new diaper drive information. They also made changes to ensure the correct behavior of donation forms, specifically related to diaper drive participant selection. The user's contributions also included refactoring and merging of other code branches.
inventory-management-systemrailsnon-profitrubyforgoodsdg-3
asheren/elixir_in_action_dc
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
notes from DC's Elixir in Action Book Club
Contributions:17 commits, 11 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 months
elixir
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