Emily Watkins
Senior Software Engineer at BambooHR
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolEmily Watkins is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Portland, OR area with eight years of hands-on experience building and improving web applications across Ruby on Rails, Python/Flask, and full-stack environments. She has driven measurable impact—implementing Elasticsearch to speed critical lookups 5.5x, automating reporting that eliminated an 11-hour manual process, and improving data integrity in complex databases. Comfortable working directly with product and design teams, she excels at improving user workflows and shipping maintainable, testable code in both startup and client-focused settings. Her background as a professional musician and experience creating tooling and documentation for non-technical users gives her a strong empathy for user experience and collaboration. Currently at BambooHR, she blends curiosity-driven problem solving with pragmatic engineering to find cleaner, faster solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Music in Cello Performance, Master of Music in Cello Performance at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Music in Cello Performance, Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee
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Github contributions (5)
emilywatkins/music_teacher_site
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
emilywatkins/seinfeld
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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