Amy Farrell
Senior Software Engineer at GSA
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmy Farrell is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 16 years of experience designing data-focused systems and resolving thorny production issues. She blends a strong attention to data models and system interactions with practical troubleshooting skills, consistently tracing root causes to deliver robust solutions. Her career spans product and engineering leadership roles at organizations such as Lucid Meetings and FlightStats and now the GSA, showing comfort across startups, scale-ups, and government engineering. An active front-end contributor on GitHub, she has improved responsive table plugins by making toggles customizable and bookmarkable—an example of her attention to usable, extensible UI behaviors. Trained at MIT, she brings a long-term perspective from technical writing through director-level engineering work, which helps her communicate complex designs clearly to diverse stakeholders.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
SB, SB at MIT
Github Skills (5)
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
jquery9
html9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fooplugins/FooTable
Aug 2013 - May 2014
jQuery plugin to make HTML tables responsive
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 comment in 8 months
Contributions summary:Amy primarily contributed to the front-end of the project, which focuses on making HTML tables responsive. They modified the JavaScript code to use class names for toggling, replacing hardcoded strings. Additionally, they implemented a feature to override the toggler with custom HTML markup and added a bookmarkable plugin. They also made adjustments to CSS files to enhance the responsiveness of the table toggles.
jqueryjavascriptjquery-pluginhtml-tablesresponsive
usagov/usagov-logshipper
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 reviews, 30 PRs, 80 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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