Ashley Willis
Senior Director Of Developer Relations
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAshley Willis is a Senior Director of Developer Relations with 13 years of experience building global developer programs and advocacy teams at GitHub, Google, and Microsoft. She specializes in translating developer feedback into product improvements, shipping sample code and SDK support, and fostering communities that drive adoption and long-term product strategy. Ashley has led and mentored large, distributed teams (40+ at Microsoft) and is comfortable both in hands-on technical work and in executive-facing strategy. Her background spans startups and enterprise—founding a consulting and photography business before moving into software—and brings entrepreneurial instincts to developer experience problems. Based in Seattle, she combines deep technical enablement skills with a knack for creating actionable internal feedback loops that accelerate product-market fit. A practical, community-first leader, she consistently turns real-world developer pain points into prioritized engineering outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Computer Software Engineering, Software Development, Computer Software Engineering at Hackbright Academy
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Github Skills (35)
programming-language10
discord10
artwork10
go10
common-lisp10
golang10
bit10
interpreter9
gopher9
lisp9
stem9
odin8
compiler8
arduino-library8
javascript8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ashleymcnamara/artwork
Apr 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
ashleymcnamara/openchimp
Dec 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:17 commits in 10 months
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