Ally Piechowski
Independent Software Engineer at Piechowski.io
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlly Piechowski is an independent principal software engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience turning neglected, high-debt codebases into maintainable, forward-moving systems. She specializes in Ruby on Rails architecture, legacy migrations, and environment optimization, routinely upgrading dependencies and refactoring without breaking existing APIs. Her background spans hands-on driver and networking work—writing load-balancing algorithms and patching Intel Ethernet drivers—through to leading teams and coordinating complex cloud deployments with Terraform, AWS, and Buildkite. She’s delivered large migrations (MySQL→Postgres) and major Rails upgrades with minimal downtime, and consults on polyglot code reviews and system hardening. Outside engineering, she hiked over 3,500 miles in 2024, a detail that reflects her persistence and comfort with long-term, demanding projects.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at West Bend West
English
Stackoverflow
3,354reputation
273kreached
134answers
36questions
github
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
dependabot10
padding10
autocomplete10
vim10
linter10
extractor10
test-coverage10
gameplay10
lucky-framework10
api10
html10
spice10
json10
stack-based10
docker-toolbox10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
grepsedawk/bonspiel.studio
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
https://bonspiel.studio/
Contributions:17 PRs, 36 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years
crystal-langcrystallucky-frameworkluckytypescript
grepsedawk/piechowski.io
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Alex Piechowski's personal website/blog
Contributions:2 PRs, 63 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
personal-blog-websiteblog-websitealex
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