Allyson Julian
Software Engineer at theatlantic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorAllyson Julian is a software engineer in New York with 12 years of experience building education-focused web products and tooling. She spent 2011–2015 at eSpark Learning owning the assessment engine and maintaining the flagship student experience, blending product ownership with hands-on backend and frontend work. Her technical stack centers on Python, PostgreSQL, JavaScript/HTML/CSS and Ruby on Rails, and she has contributed to open-source documentation and installation workflows for the widely used yt-project/yt repository. Rooted in a family of educators, she combines empathy for learners with pragmatic engineering to deliver clear, usable systems. Colleagues appreciate that she pairs meticulous docs and deployment clarity with a focus on improving teacher and student outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
documentation10
scientific-computing9
python9
scientific-visualization9
ipython8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yt-project/yt
May 2015 - Jun 2016
Main yt repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:120 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Allyson primarily focused on modifying and updating installation instructions within the documentation of the `yt-project/yt` repository. Their work involved refactoring the `installing.rst` file to separate and update the installation of IPython notebook dependencies. This includes renaming files, updating package installation commands, and fixing typos to improve clarity and user experience for those installing and using the software. Additionally, the user merged changes from upstream including a new file related to simulation handling.
pythondatafinite-element-analysisgeophysicsnuclear-engineering
xhyve-manager/xhyve-manager
May 2016 - Oct 2016
A simple commandline utility to manage xhyve Virtual Machines
Contributions:235 commits, 80 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
command-line-utilityvirtual-machine
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