Elissa Olinsky
Director Of Product at Factal
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolElissa Olinsky is a Director of Product with nine years of experience blending human-centered design, inclusive research, and developer-focused API practices to build data-informed products at Factal and in government health programs. She began her career in museum technology and education, where she developed expertise in audience expansion, community engagement, and museum labor practices—skills she brings to product work that serves diverse users and accessibility needs. At Ad Hoc she led research ethics, accessibility initiatives, and cross-team efforts to improve APIs and documentation for Medicaid and Veterans services. Comfortable translating between engineers, researchers, and stakeholders, she applies physical-design thinking to digital experiences that serve bodies and brains together. Based in Bethesda, MD, Elissa pairs historical scholarship in German- and Austrian-Jewish history with practical product leadership, a combination that informs empathetic, evidence-driven decision making.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.A.T., Museum Education, M.A.T., Museum Education at The George Washington UniversityA.B., German, A.B., German at Princeton University
English, German, French
Github Skills (10)
data-api10
claims9
api8
telegram6
whatsapp6
slack5
messaging5
chat4
messenger4
electron3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
epfrankle/hello-world
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 26 pushes, 7 branches in 8 months
javapythonlearning-by
CMSgov/bcda-static-site
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Informational site for BCDA
Contributions:21 reviews, 4 commits, 12 PRs in 7 months
bcdainformational
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