Allison Seboldt
Associate Director, Data Engineering
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Seboldt is an Associate Director of Data Engineering with 11 years of experience building and maintaining distributed web applications and data pipelines. She specializes in backend Python development, Django/DRF APIs, and architecting scalable services on AWS, having transformed millions of rows of user data for SaaS platforms. As a founding engineer on multiple startups, she combines product-facing responsibility—customer communication and feature design—with deep technical work like normalizing Postgres schemas and extending open-source JS frameworks. She also applies strong data engineering skills to civic open-source projects, contributing backend improvements to the widely used unitedstates/congress-legislators repository. Known for pragmatic engineering (e.g., cutting test runtimes from 15 minutes to under one) and a comfort across full-stack tooling, she’s equally at home debugging Bash and Docker as she is designing APIs. Based in Chicago, Allison brings startup grit and disciplined process to production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Public Relations and Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Public Relations and Political Science at Illinois State University
Github Skills (9)
csv10
python10
data-integration10
data-processing10
government-data9
parliamentary-data9
data-gov9
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
unitedstates/congress-legislators
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Members of the United States Congress, 1789-Present, in YAML/JSON/CSV, as well as committees, presidents, and vice presidents.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Allison primarily focused on enhancing a data processing script within the repository. They updated the script responsible for matching and updating ICPSR IDs, including modifying the URL structure for retrieving data. They also refactored the code for easier readability and debugging, including commenting out and re-adding original code to improve functionality. Furthermore, they updated the code to process data in CSV format and implement Bioguide based matching, indicating a focus on data transformation and integration.
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asebold/congress-legislators
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Members of the United States Congress, 1789-Present, in YAML/JSON/CSV, as well as committees, presidents, and vice presidents.
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 5 months
csvzmodemcongressmemberscsv-json
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