Brooke Hannah
Senior Software Engineer at Leopard.FYI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrooke Hannah is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience designing and operating scalable systems across consumer-scale platforms and regulated financial services. She’s built greenfield GKYC verification services at FIS, automated fault-handling at TikTok’s massive scale, and delivered resilient APIs and e-commerce platforms at Nextiva and RetailMeNot, giving her a rare cross-industry perspective on universal engineering tradeoffs. Proficient in Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript, and Spring Boot, she pairs deep cloud and DevOps expertise (AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform) with pragmatic monitoring and observability practices using Datadog and Grafana. An active open-source contributor to notable Ruby projects like ActiveAdmin and auto_html, she pays attention to small but impactful details—like accessibility-minded image alt attributes—while solving big-system problems. With a physics background that sharpens her analytical approach, Brooke translates complex business requirements into maintainable, high-performance solutions and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at Arizona State UniversityHS Diploma, HS Diploma at University High SchoolJapanese, Japanese at Pima Community College
Japanese, English
Github Skills (14)
html10
json10
apim10
ruby-rails10
rails10
api10
activeadmin10
ruby10
admin-interface9
admin9
oembed9
kaminari9
regular-expression9
arbre5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
activeadmin/activeadmin
Apr 2013 - Nov 2013
The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Brooke made several contributions focused on improving the ActiveAdmin framework, primarily related to its pagination and commenting features. They refactored the pagination theme, separating Kaminari-related views to prevent overrides and improve customization. The user also addressed comment registration, ensuring that the `AdminComment` model was correctly integrated within the application. Furthermore, the commits included adjustments to the core application, loading default namespaces, and merging changes.
ruby-on-railsrubyactiveadminarbrerails
dejan/auto_html
Feb 2012 - Mar 2012
Collection of filters that transform plain text into HTML code.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:Brooke primarily focused on adding and modifying filters for the `auto_html` library, which transforms plain text into HTML code. Their contributions included implementing filters for services like Flickr and Twitter, leveraging oEmbed and JSON APIs for embedding content. Additionally, the user made improvements to existing filters, such as removing unnecessary code and updating image embeds to include the alt attribute.
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