Ellen Nkomo
Senior Software Engineer at Zeen
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEllen Nkomo is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building backend systems for consumer and design-focused products. After a 3.5-year career in public finance investment banking, she transitioned into software through the Turing School and has since shipped features at fast-growing startups including Landing (900k+ app downloads) and Zeen. She specializes in backend development and bringing financial rigor to product engineering—helping teams balance scalability with measurable outcomes. Ellen’s background in economics and public finance gives her a strong analytical lens for data-driven decision making and stakeholder communication.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleBachelor of Arts, Economics and International Studies, Bachelor of Arts, Economics and International Studies at Northwestern UniversityBackend Engineering, Backend Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design
Github Skills (23)
rspec7
currency7
highlighting7
testing6
cryptocurrency5
ruby5
rails5
aggregator5
crypto4
one-liner3
redis2
auth2
boilerplate2
typescript1
object-oriented-programming1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JoelLindow/bike-share
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:42 PRs, 47 pushes, 32 branches in 8 days
emcooper/Not-Here-to-Make-Friends
Aug 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:47 PRs, 85 pushes, 28 branches in 3 years 2 months
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