Amal Hussein
Principal Engineering Manager at Istari Digital
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAmal Hussein is a Principal Engineering Manager based in New York with 12 years of experience leading teams that build high-throughput cloud services and developer-facing products. She has progressed from hands-on principal engineer roles to senior leadership at companies including Stripe, Cisco, and npm, where she led the registry microservices that handled millions of daily requests. At Stripe she co-created the initial prototype for Connect Embeddable Components, and at Indigo and Istari Digital she shaped product-facing engineering for complex platform and transport systems. Amal also hosts Changelog’s JS Party, reaching 20,000+ engineers weekly, blending technical depth with community influence. Trained in biomedical engineering and mathematics, she brings analytical rigor and cross-disciplinary curiosity to distributed systems and developer tooling. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic technical leader who pairs product-minded architecture with a track record of shipping resilient systems at scale.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (196)
zero-configuration10
testing10
material-ui10
oas10
specification10
declarative10
web-development10
openapi10
web-platform10
javascript10
sinon10
safari10
browser10
webkit10
microsoft-edge10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
test262-automation/mock-test262
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 95 pushes, 132 branches in 1 month
AmalHussein/girl_world
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 1 day
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