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
23 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 (25)
discord10
artwork10
go10
common-lisp10
golang10
bit10
gopher10
lisp10
programming-language9
nodejs9
stem9
javascript8
arduino-library7
adafruit5
openstack4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ashleymcnamara/gophers
Feb 2017 - Apr 2019
Gopher Artwork by Ashley McNamara
Contributions:107 commits, 3 PRs, 111 pushes in 2 years 2 months
golangashleygopherartwork
ashleymcnamara/STEM_Resources_For_Kids
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
A list of STEM resources for kids
Contributions:1 review, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
stemkids
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