Amanda Ellis
Principal Engineer at Culture Amp
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanda Ellis is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience specialising in distributed microservices, domain-driven design, event sourcing and CQRS, currently scaling Culture Amp’s event-driven platform with Apache Kafka. She has a strong track record of re-architecting monoliths and legacy systems into modern, streaming-first architectures while combining hands-on technical leadership with delivery and architecture roles. Amanda pairs deep engineering expertise with people-focused leadership—drawing on a prior career in educational leadership to excel at change management, strategic communication and growing high-performing teams. Based in Melbourne, she brings a rare blend of educator mindset and systems thinking that helps teams build higher-quality software and adopt durable, scalable practices.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts/Teaching, Psychology / Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts/Teaching, Psychology / Mathematics at University of BallaratMacKillop Catholic Regional College
Github Skills (32)
easeljs7
sublime6
sublime-text6
counter5
char5
ruby4
php4
symfony-bundle4
twig4
symfony3
prestashop-module3
cms3
cqrs3
nodejs3
event-sourcing2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tutsplus/Building-a-Web-App-From-Scratch-With-AngularJS
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 commits in 3 months
tutsplus/introduction-to-signalR
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 day
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