Summary
Emily Hannan is an Engineering Manager with 8 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms across the US, Canada, and Denmark, currently based in San Francisco. She has led teams that grew platforms from 100M to 800M daily hits and delivered HIPAA/GDPR-compliant products across fintech, social media, healthcare, and government. A full-stack leader comfortable with React, Vue, Node.js, GraphQL and Kubernetes, she combines hands-on technical decisions with strategic platform migrations on AWS and Azure. Emily is known for creating high-performance teams and mentorship pathways that have promoted engineers into DevOps, Architecture, and Technical Lead roles. Her background in fine art (MFA/BFA) and a Web Development Immersive give her a rare blend of design-minded problem solving and rigorous engineering craft. She quietly favors pragmatic automation and documentation practices that keep rapid deployment cycles sustainable at scale.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Sculpture at University of Washington
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General Assembly
Masters of Fine Art, Sculpture, Masters of Fine Art, Sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art
English, Danish, Spanish