Amy Troschinetz
Creator & Co-creator
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top School
Top expert inStatic Site Generation and Blogging Themes
Amy Troschinetz is a seasoned full-stack engineer and creator with 13 years of experience building scalable, user-facing systems and developer tooling across startups and enterprise teams. Based in Portland, she has led platform and runtime initiatives at companies like InVision and GitLab, designed high-throughput event pipelines at Monte Carlo, and shipped critical features for consumer products at Under Armour and RetailMeNot. As founder of SpellBot and co-creator of Convoke, she grew community-driven gaming products to thousands of active users and scaled Convoke to 20k+ users within months, blending product instincts with hands-on engineering. Her open-source contributions span front-end Jekyll theming to backend tooling for the widely used Bokeh project, where she improved changelog and tutorial tooling—evidence of a pragmatic focus on developer experience. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript, Ruby, C++, and cloud-native tooling, she pairs deep systems knowledge with strong testing and CI practices. She brings a practical, entrepreneurial mindset—waging a "never-ending war" against bugs while building reliable, delightful products.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (19)
github10
python10
css10
responsive-design10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
html10
javascript9
apidoc9
api9
version-control8
cli8
blogpost8
blogspot8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bokeh/bokeh
Mar 2014 - Jul 2020
Interactive Data Visualization in the browser, from Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Amy primarily contributed to the development of the `scripts/changes.py` script, which is responsible for generating changelogs. Their work involved enhancements to this script, including fixing bugs, improving the user interface with options for customization, and refactoring existing code. The user also added the `scripts/exercises.py` script to help with tutorial exercises. Overall, the user focused on improving the tools used to manage and document the `bokeh/bokeh` project.
pythonvisualisationplottingbokehplots
daattali/beautiful-jekyll
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
✨ Build a beautiful and simple website in literally minutes. Demo at https://beautifuljekyll.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 13 PRs, 24 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Amy primarily contributed to the user interface and design aspects of the Jekyll theme. They implemented features to configure the website's appearance, including custom meta tags for description, keywords, and theme colors. The user also added functionality for site-wide CSS configuration, og:site_name support, and automatically adjusting the navbar based on the background color. Additionally, they cleaned up whitespace and addressed a margin alignment issue in Safari.
ruby-gemtailwindcsssimple-websiteliquidjekyll-themes
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