Amy Unger
Software Engineer at Heroku
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmy Unger is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable APIs and production systems at companies like Heroku, GitHub, Getty Images and Bendyworks. She specializes in backend engineering and ecosystem work, with a track record of executing zero-downtime migrations, stabilizing partner-facing APIs, and designing maintainable architectures for real-time data flows. An active open-source maintainer, she contributed robust refactors and testing improvements to the widely used pdfkit Ruby gem, sharpening its command generation and configuration reliability. With a background that spans library science to large-scale web platforms, she brings careful data stewardship and a pragmatic focus on operational resilience to every project.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Library Studies, Masters of Library Studies at University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigh School, High School at Milton AcademyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History at University of Chicago
English
Github Skills (10)
rspec10
html-to-pdf10
wkhtmltopdf10
ruby10
command-line-interface9
scripting7
script7
sh7
shell7
rubygems5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pdfkit/pdfkit
Aug 2013 - Jan 2016
A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 47 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Amy primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `pdfkit/pdfkit` Ruby gem. Their contributions involved refactoring and updating the codebase, including removing outdated testing syntax and improving code style for consistency. They also added tests for configuration and PDFKit initialization and addressed shell escaping issues in the command generation, making the gem more robust. Furthermore, the user updated the gem version.
command-line-utilitycssrubywkhtmltopdfpdfkit
cdwort/data_structures
Jan 2014 - Oct 2020
Test out building some data structures in C
Contributions:7 reviews, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 10 months
data-structuredata-structures
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