Amy Grace is a data science and digital transformation leader with 30+ years of systems engineering experience and a track record of building high-performing teams that deliver measurable business value. Currently Vice President of Data Science & Analytics at Otis Elevator, she has led large-scale predictive maintenance and health-management programs for thousands of commercial and military engines at Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace. Comfortable spanning strategy and hands-on execution, she has shipped tooling and integration work—contributing to prominent open-source projects like Visual Studio Code and fish-shell to improve developer workflows. A passionate advocate for STEM, she focuses on mentoring and igniting interest in engineering among young people, especially women. Based in Farmington, CT, she blends aerospace engineering roots with modern data practices to reduce operational cost and extend asset life. Colleagues know her for pragmatic technical leadership that pairs curiosity (she’s a digital artist and archivist on the side) with measurable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Syracuse University
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 24 days
Contributions summary:Amy primarily contributed to the `fish-shell` project by adding completion scripts for various command-line tools and utilities. Their work focused on enhancing the user experience by providing improved auto-completion for commands like `Visual Studio Code`, `cygpath`, `cygstart`, `nethack`, `irb`, `plutil`, `smerge`, `rename`, and `xxd`. These additions improved the shell's usability and integration with other software. They also made minor adjustments to the documentation/functions to correctly utilize macOS's builtin `manpath`.
Contributions:3 reviews, 14 commits, 1 PR in 9 days
Contributions summary:Amy primarily contributed to the shell integration feature for the fish shell within the Visual Studio Code project. Their work included adding, modifying, and refining the shell integration script, incorporating features like command execution tracking, and working directory updates. They also added CLI support related to locating the shell integration path, and addressed code quality issues. These contributions involved changes to various files related to terminal integration, the CLI, and environment settings.
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Amy Grace - Vice President, Data Science & Analytics