Anna Brown
Senior Software Engineer at Slack
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnna Brown is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building JavaScript-first user experiences, currently driving front-end work at Slack from San Francisco. She specializes in React, Redux, and modern front-end tooling, and has a proven track record redesigning search and content experiences that improve product engagement. At IFTTT she led a Contentful migration that cut costs by $13,000/month and contributed Rails and GraphQL backend work, showing she bridges product-facing UI and service integration. A former Fullstack Academy teaching fellow, she mentors engineers, authors interview questions, and has hands-on experience converting large codebases to React. Her background in arts and humanities and roles in education and nonprofit fundraising give her strong communication skills and a user-centered design sensibility that inform her engineering decisions. Outside of work she maintains annabrown.codes and brings a cross-disciplinary perspective to building elegant, maintainable web interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Latin American Studies, Latin American Studies at Institute for Study Abroad at Butler UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Spanish Literature and Art History, 3.95, Bachelor’s Degree, Spanish Literature and Art History, 3.95 at Barnard CollegeContinuing Education Courses, Digital Design, Continuing Education Courses, Digital Design at The New SchoolThe Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy, The Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy at Fullstack Academy of Code
Spanish, French
Github Skills (1)
ecommerce2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
annaebrown/street_art_map_firebase
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 months
artstreet-artmapcrowdsourcedstreet
TheBeff/WoofStack
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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