Amanda Lin
Senior Software Engineering Manager at GitHub
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanda Lin is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Chicago with a decade of experience building full‑stack web platforms, primarily in Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Rails. At GitHub she has progressed from engineer to manager, leading teams that deliver feature lifecycle frameworks, Codespaces work, growth experimentation, and user-facing projects like the Command Palette. Amanda combines hands-on coding and technical leadership—running A/B experimentation, feature flagging, and product debt initiatives—to help teams ship confidently at scale. Her background includes merchant-facing systems at Trunk Club and client-facing analytics at Yelp, giving her a strong product sensibility alongside engineering rigor. She also mentors and teaches technical practices, reflecting a consistent thread of people development throughout her career.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dev BootcampBachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Studies (world business and economy) B.A. & Strategic Communication B.A., Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Studies (world business and economy) B.A. & Strategic Communication B.A. at The Ohio State University
English
Github Skills (30)
git10
github-issues10
github10
github-api-v410
component-library10
go10
command-line10
golang10
command-line-tool10
react10
cli10
entropy8
password-strength8
typescript8
capstone7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adnamalin/hello-world
Mar 2016 - Aug 2024
GitHub Hello World Tutorial
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 years 6 months
hello-world-github
adnamalin/adnamalin.github.io
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:92 PRs, 92 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 2 months
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