Christy Hermansen
Director at GSA
Sterling, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristy Hermansen is a seasoned enterprise software and design leader with nearly three decades of cross-domain experience, currently serving as Director at GSA after eight years as Design Lead. She specializes in enterprise application integration, user-centered requirements, and component-driven UX/UI, having embedded with users to run weekly engagement sessions and translate focus-group insights into production software. An early adopter of Agile—leading her first Agile team in 2005—she blends product design, technical architecture, and hands-on delivery across web and desktop stacks from Ruby/Rails and Java to C++ and .NET. Christy has a track record of innovation in startups that were later acquired, and has led large-scale federal projects including a global Air Force data warehouse and multi-vendor integration platforms for Fortune 500 customers. Her background in theology and communications alongside computer science signals a rare mix of technical rigor and human-centered perspective that shapes practical, user-friendly enterprise solutions.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Communications, Communications at University of CanberraMaster's degree, Theology/Theological Studies, Master's degree, Theology/Theological Studies at Wesley Theological SeminaryBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at James Madison University
Github Skills (10)
prototyping10
sam9
styles9
aws6
react6
accessibility4
uswds4
clarity4
open-source2
javascript2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GSA/sam-prototypes
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Prototyping Module for beta.SAM.gov Project
Contributions:214 commits, 15 PRs, 135 pushes in 2 years 9 months
govsamprototyping
GSA/sam-styles
Jun 2019 - Jan 2024
SAM Styles
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
samstylesaws
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