Amalie Barras
Lead UX Researcher, Rapid Insights, Fitbit (via Akraya) at Google
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmalie Barras is a Lead UX Researcher with a decade of experience translating data-driven insights into actionable product decisions across Google, Spotify, and civic tech. She blends a data analyst’s rigor with deep qualitative methods to uncover hard-to-see problems, scale rapid research programs, and coach cross-functional teams toward impact. Amalie has led high-ambiguity studies—from multi-round longitudinal work under NDA to dogfood evaluations—that directly informed launch strategy and reliability tooling for engineers. She’s known for building repeatable research systems, evangelizing UXR practices globally, and making insights accessible through concise newsletters, reels, and workshops. Outside product work she’s an avid DIYer and traveler who channels curiosity from civic volunteer projects into enterprise research leadership.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Advertising | TexasMedia | Business Foundations Program, B.S Advertising | TexasMedia | Business Foundations Program at The University of Texas at AustinDesign, Design at The Iron Yard
English, German
Github Skills (20)
dos8
jekyll8
portal7
backend6
open-data6
jekyll-theme6
sapper6
edtech5
bootstrap4
ruby4
github3
github-pages3
react3
rails3
recovery2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
amaliebarras/restaurant-redesign
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
amaliebarras/redarena-app
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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