Alyssa Hursh
Engineering Manager at Apollo GraphQL
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlyssa Hursh is an engineering manager and former staff engineer with nine years of experience specializing in untangling and simplifying legacy backend systems, primarily in Java. Based in Portland, she moved from a hands-on SDE track at Amazon to leadership roles at Apollo GraphQL, where she mentors engineers and oversees delivery. She prefers bringing clarity to complex, mature codebases over greenfield development and has a knack for pragmatic, incremental improvements that reduce technical debt. An Ada Developers Academy alum and internship mentor to 200+ SDE interns, she blends people-first coaching with deep system knowledge. Her background in operations and production management informs a process-minded approach to engineering leadership and reliable delivery. Colleagues know her for bold, sometimes “bad” ideas that reliably turn into useful solutions.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Art Studio Art, Bachelor of Art Studio Art at Carleton College
English, French
Github Skills (16)
voting10
common-data-format9
tabulator8
tac6
capstone6
backbone5
ada4
javascript3
trading3
big-o2
caesar-cipher2
fundamentals1
python1
nodejs1
nodes1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alyssahursh/mazamas
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:17 PRs, 113 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
alyssahursh/beyoncy
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:49 PRs, 89 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
ruby-on-railscommercepersonrailsagile
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