Amanda Bullington
Member Of Technical Staff at Sage AI Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAmanda Bullington is a product-focused software engineer with 8+ years of experience building high-impact mobile and full-stack applications, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Sage AI Labs. She led React Native development for Seek by iNaturalist (15M installs) and architected a modern iNaturalist mobile app that replaced two 12+-year legacy codebases, showing a knack for large migrations and mobile-optimized APIs. At SmartNews she shipped NewsArc and production LLM-generated summaries, demonstrating rapid prototyping across AI pipelines to UX. Comfortable wearing many hats on small teams, she pairs frontend and backend fluency with product and design collaboration to create learning-centered experiences. Amanda also contributes to the iNaturalist Rails codebase, including internationalization and user settings work that supports a global, high-traffic community. She’s seeking a mission-driven role where software tangibly improves how people learn and explore.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hack ReactorBachelor of Arts International Economics, Bachelor of Arts International Economics at The George Washington UniversityAdvanced Mandarin Studies, Advanced Mandarin Studies at National Taiwan Normal University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (12)
ruby-rails10
internationalization10
localization10
rails10
i18next10
ruby10
activerecord9
user-interface8
java6
backup6
android6
encryption6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
inaturalist/inaturalist
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
The Rails app behind iNaturalist.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 96 commits, 20 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Amanda primarily contributed to the iNaturalist Rails application by adding and removing locales for common names and taxon names, which likely involved updating the application's internationalization (i18n) features. They modified Ruby files to incorporate locale configurations, indicating work related to data models and potentially the display of content in different languages. The user also implemented user settings related to blocking users.
rails-app
inaturalist/iNaturalistReactNative
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Cross-platform version of the iNat mobile app
Contributions:8 releases, 354 reviews, 355 commits in 1 year 4 months
mobile-application
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