Alyssa Harris
Lead Data Engineer
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlyssa Harris is a Lead Data Engineer based in Washington, D.C., with nearly a decade of experience building and scaling data platforms across startups and government-focused organizations. She moved from founding data engineering roles at seed-stage Indigov—where she rewrote a core pipeline to boost efficiency 400%—into engineering management and hands-on leadership, driving a 50% team velocity improvement within six months. Her background blends rigorous quantitative training (M.A. Economics) with practical software engineering, enabling her to bridge data science, microsimulation research, and production data systems. Alyssa has led cross-functional product efforts at Development Seed and modernized analytics infrastructure at NexHealth and Capital One, demonstrating both strategic vision and deep technical execution. Colleagues describe her as a builder who thrives on turning messy legacy pipelines into reliable, auditable data products that accelerate decision-making.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Abroad Mobile Software Development, Summer Abroad Mobile Software Development at Aquincum Institute of Technology - BudapestBachelor's degree Computer Science Economics/Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Economics/Mathematics at Rhodes CollegeMaster of Arts (M.A.) Economics, Master of Arts (M.A.) Economics at University of Virginia
English
Github Skills (16)
openstreetmap9
cartography8
kaios8
analytics7
apt7
cumulus6
api6
php5
react4
astronomy4
python4
jupyter-notebook1
jupyterlab-extension1
jupyterlab1
collaboration1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
developmentseed/api.work.vote
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:53 commits, 21 PRs, 26 pushes in 6 months
UI-Research/Python-For-Data-Science
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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