Allison Stanko
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Stanko is a Senior Software Development Engineer at AWS with eight years of hands-on experience building developer tooling where game developers meet AWS, especially around ECS and container deployment. She combines backend, DevOps and full-stack work—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like the Spinnaker UI, Clouddriver, the AWS CLI, and the amazon-ecs-cli—to improve ECS integrations, deployment automation, and health/capacity management. Based in Seattle, she has deep familiarity with AWS authentication, Cognito, load balancer integration, and Cloud deployment workflows, and she’s shipped features that tighten the bridge between developer UX and underlying cloud primitives. Her background in linguistics and international studies adds a rare cross-disciplinary perspective to developer tooling and documentation, helping her spot usability gaps and communicate complex infrastructure changes clearly.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MA of International Studies, South Asia & Global Trade, MA of International Studies, South Asia & Global Trade at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, Hindi
Github Skills (37)
javascript10
docker10
aws-codedeploy10
amazon-ecs10
python10
amazon-cognito10
dockers10
java10
cicd10
javas10
go10
aws10
aws-ecs10
aws-cli10
udeploy10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ecs-cli
Dec 2017 - Dec 2020
The Amazon ECS CLI enables users to run their applications on ECS/Fargate using the Docker Compose file format, quickly provision resources, push/pull images in ECR, and monitor running applications on ECS/Fargate.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 5 reviews, 91 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Allison primarily contributed to the `aws/amazon-ecs-cli` repository, focusing on enhancing its functionality and maintaining its code. The user's commits included updating AMI IDs used for Amazon ECS-optimized AMIs and bumping the CLI version. Furthermore, the user added features related to health checks and force deployment, modifying the core functionality of service deployment within the CLI and also extended the supporting infrastructure to allow for a more accurate representation of cloud resources.
monitorpushecrcomposeecs-fargate
spinnaker/clouddriver
Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
read and write operations across cloud providers
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:155 reviews, 25 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Allison primarily contributed to enhancing the ECS (Elastic Container Service) functionality of the clouddriver, including adding support for task definition artifacts, improving task health checks, and validating service discovery associations. Their work involved modifying Java code to integrate with Amazon ECS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and other AWS services. They also addressed issues with service scaling, and enhanced testing.
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