Elise Hollowed
Director Of Programs, GitHub Education
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElise Hollowed is a software engineer and program leader with 10 years of experience building distributed systems and developer-focused platforms, currently directing GitHub Education programs after leading program management there. She combines hands-on back-end and DevOps skills—demonstrated by automating workflows and Airtable integrations for GitHub Graduation—with strategic program-building and cross-functional leadership. Elise has led engineering teams at startups and enterprise deployments, shipping monitoring, SDKs, and secure backend services that scaled into commercial open source. She’s passionate about cultivating empathetic workplaces and coaches 5th–8th grade girls in autonomous robotics through FIRST LEGO League, translating mentorship into stronger engineering teams. Outside tech, she serves as a King County Search and Rescue field member, reflecting a readiness to lead under pressure and in the field.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Humanities/Humanistic Studies, Bachelor's Degree, Humanities/Humanistic Studies at Seattle University
English, German
Github Skills (7)
github-ci10
javascript10
githubaction-workflow10
cicd9
airtable9
nodejs8
api-design7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
github-education-resources/GitHubGraduation-2021
May 2021 - Feb 2022
Join the GitHub Graduation Yearbook and "walk the stage" on June 5.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:571 reviews, 676 commits, 636 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Elise primarily focused on automating the graduation process within the GitHub Education resource repository. They made changes to the `.github/workflows/src/index.js` file, which suggests involvement in setting up or modifying the workflow to handle pull request reviews, merging, and feedback automation. Additionally, the user contributed to the Airtable integration by altering files related to fetching and using data from Airtable, indicating back-end development and data processing tasks. Several merge commits suggest the user was actively integrating code from various branches.
yearbookwalkjunejoingraduation
github-education-resources/graduation
May 2020 - Jul 2020
$ git remote <graduation> yearbook
Contributions:700 commits, 1651 PRs, 1458 pushes in 2 months
graduationyearbook
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