Summary
Amanda Mitchell is a versatile Staff+ Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and renovating mission-critical web products, now based in Bellingham, Washington. She has deep expertise in complex compliance-driven systems, most recently leading Tax Setup at Gusto where she balanced aggressive revenue timelines with long-term maintainability and zero major incidents over 12+ months. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and a technical leader, she excels at mentoring engineers and creating new domain experts through 1:1s, office hours, and org-wide guidance. Her background includes principal-level architecture and delivery work at Faithlife—spanning sync protocols, web apps, and mentoring internship programs—showing strong product and platform instincts. Amanda is pragmatic about trade-offs, skilled at aligning cross-functional teams to unlock ARR and cost savings, and brings a track record of untangling legacy codebases into reliable, scalable systems.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
BA Computer Science Spanish, BA Computer Science Spanish at Harding University