Amelia Wattenberger
Partner at Sutter Hill Ventures
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmelia Wattenberger is a Partner at Sutter Hill Ventures and a designer-engineer with 13 years of experience building at the intersection of AI, web development, design, and data visualization. She previously held senior research and engineering roles at GitHub and Adept and has a track record of turning complex data into intuitive interfaces, exemplified by her full‑stack work on a repository visualizer that combines React and D3 with automated GitHub Actions. Based in Oakland, she blends product design sensibility with deep technical chops from roles at The Pudding, Parsely, and visualization labs, bringing a research-informed approach to developer tooling and visualization. Unusually for a VC partner, she continues to ship code and open-source work, maintaining hands-on influence over the tools and demos that shape investment theses.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Wellesley High SchoolNon-seeking Information Studies, Non-seeking Information Studies at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science Neuroscience & Psychology, Bachelor of Science Neuroscience & Psychology at Trinity College-Hartford
French, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
github-ci10
javascript10
d3js10
githubaction-workflow10
front-end-development10
react10
build-automation10
git5
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
githubocto/repo-visualizer
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 13 reviews, 63 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Amelia's contributions center on developing the repository visualizer application, focusing on the front-end and build process. They implemented the user interface using React, including component rendering, and integrated the D3.js library to visualize repository data. The user also focused on automating the build process with GitHub Actions, making the changes in the automated tasks. Their work included the addition of automated processes and build targets for the application.
Wattenberger/Wattenberger-2019
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:185 commits, 2 PRs, 158 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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