Devney Hamilton
Worker-Owner at Sassafras Tech Collective
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevney Hamilton is a software engineer and worker-owner at Sassafras Tech Collective with 12 years of experience building web and mobile tools that support social justice movements, participatory democracy, and community healing. Trained in anthropology and AI-enabled computer science at Stanford, they bridge qualitative understanding of people with pragmatic engineering across Ruby on Rails, Swift, React, Node.js, Python (ML/stats), and both SQL and NoSQL datastores. Devney has taught and mentored dozens of learners through roles at Girls Who Code and Stanford, and has built production systems for nonprofits and grassroots campaigns that prioritize accessibility, consent, and long-term relationships. They are a practiced consultant and collaborator who favors test-driven development, pair programming, and cross-disciplinary experimentation, and has presented work on how machine learning reproduces human biases. Based in Austin, Devney brings a rare combination of movement-centered values, research-driven curiosity, and hands-on full-stack craft to projects that aim to shift power toward communities.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA with Honors, Anthropology, BA with Honors, Anthropology at Stanford University
Spanish, Turkish
Github Skills (14)
data-collection10
web-application10
mobile9
python7
shell7
nutrition3
ancestry3
crowdsourcing3
podcast2
postgresql1
backup1
mruby1
bundling1
ruby1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DevneyHamilton/EconCit3
Apr 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
DevneyHamilton/tigra-teaser
Aug 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
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