Amber Horvath
Postdoctoral Associate
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAmber Horvath is a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and an HCI and software engineering researcher with a decade of experience studying how developers find, understand, and use APIs and tools. She holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon, where her work combined interviews, lab studies, and data mining to reveal how prior experience and mental models shape developers’ discovery and comprehension of distributed data-processing APIs. Amber blends rigorous empirical methods with prototyping and tooling—she codes to make developer workflows easier and has applied those skills in industry internships at Google and Intel. Based in Boston, she focuses on practical information-management interventions for developer tooling, bringing both academic depth and hands-on design experience to bridge research and real-world engineering.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Oregon State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (17)
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electron10
microsoft10
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vscode-extension10
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vega9
gwt9
vega-lite9
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annotator8
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
horvathaa/adamite
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
A documentation annotator to help software developers learn from one another
Contributions:441 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
annotatorjavascriptgwt
horvathaa/horvathaa.github.io-busted
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
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Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
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