Amirah Oxendine
Technical Lead at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmirah Oxendine is a Technical Lead with eight years of experience building Android-first experiences at Pinterest, where she progressed from apprentice to staff-level engineering and now leads teams shaping mobile inspiration and content delivery. She codes daily in Java and Kotlin on Android and has recently expanded into Python to architect a new API-driven content delivery system. Rooted in a background in graphic design and music composition, Amirah brings a designer’s eye for communication and user experience to engineering problems, marrying aesthetic sensibility with robust technical solutions. Known for enjoying hands-on building and curiosity about how things work, she blends product-focused thinking with practical implementation and cross-disciplinary creativity. Based in San Francisco, she’s equally comfortable shipping mobile features at scale and iterating on backend systems that power them.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Capitalism Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, Capitalism Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at University of RedlandsHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Pomfret SchoolAndroid Development, Android Development at C4Q | Access Code 4.4Communication Design Graphic Design, Communication Design Graphic Design at Fashion Institute of TechnologyGraphic Design Certificate Graphic Design, Graphic Design Certificate Graphic Design at Hunter College
Github Skills (13)
placement7
pattern5
javascript4
react4
visualization3
graph3
ruby3
sorting-algorithms2
skeleton2
data-visualization2
algorithms2
slack1
java1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ajoxe/GitJobs
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:63 PRs, 57 pushes, 4 branches in 10 days
ajoxe/UrbanGarden
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:142 PRs, 134 pushes, 3 branches in 5 days
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