Summary
Amanda Kom is a versatile website developer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building full‑stack web applications and shipping product features end-to-end. She combines hands-on React and Ruby on Rails development with product instincts honed as a solo founder who took a collaborative event‑planning SaaS from concept to test‑ready deployment. Amanda excels at bridging technical and business stakeholders, designing scalable data models and release processes, and crafting pixel‑perfect front ends that minimize revision cycles. As an engineering manager she improved release cadence, led multi-team initiatives, and ran incident and release management across numerous products. Her background in business accounting, life coaching, and even professional princessing gives her uncommon empathy and communication skills that help her mentor teams and spot hidden potential. Based in Sandpoint, Idaho, she prefers pragmatic, low‑overhead solutions that prioritize performance, accessibility, and future extensibility.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Business-Accounting B.S. Degree, 2012, Business-Accounting B.S. Degree, 2012 at University of Washington- Foster School of Business
German, German at Rotary Exchange
Ruby on Rails Accelerator, Ruby on Rails Accelerator at Code Fellows
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Washington Bothell
English, Portuguese, German, Spanish, French