Amanda Mitchell
Software Engineer at Runway
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAmanda 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 TechnologyBA Computer Science Spanish, BA Computer Science Spanish at Harding University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
low-level10
publish10
visual-studio10
roslyn-analyzer10
cpp10
html-webpack-plugin10
javascript10
dotnet10
editor10
electron10
suppress10
typescript10
eslint10
vscode-extension10
changelog10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
amanda-mitchell/semantic-release-notify-dependabot
Nov 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:114 PRs, 126 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 3 months
amanda-mitchell/suppress-eslint-errors
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
Suppress existing violations of new eslint rules and get back to building stuff.
Contributions:31 commits, 338 PRs, 371 pushes in 1 year 1 month
eslintsuppressviolationseslint-configrules
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