Emma Colner
Lead Software Engineer II at Stitch Fix
Englewood, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolEmma Colner is a Lead Software Engineer II with 14 years of experience building full-stack web applications and internal tooling at Stitch Fix, combining expertise in Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript, and data systems like PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch. She brings a rare interdisciplinary background as a Psychology/Neuroscience PhD and former postdoc, applying experimental design and cognitive science insights to product and data problems. Previously at CrowdFlower she led engineering for enterprise crowdsourcing workflows, improving data processing and training teams to scale human-in-the-loop systems. Emma excels at translating human behavior and attention research into practical software features that surface better recommendations and workflows for merchandisers. Known for mentoring engineers and melding rigorous experimental methods with production engineering, she thrives at the intersection of algorithms, machine learning, and human intelligence. Based in Florida, she quietly leverages her academic research on anxiety and attention to design more empathetic, effective user experiences.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Cognitive Science, Anthropology, BA, Cognitive Science, Anthropology at University of California, BerkeleyPhD, Psychology (Cognition and Perception), PhD, Psychology (Cognition and Perception) at New York University
English, French, Indonesian
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Github Skills (11)
fedex7
mls6
constructor6
react6
nextjs5
rails4
struct4
ruby-on-rails4
ruby4
retail2
federation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
emmafern/emmafern.github.io
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
my home on the web
Contributions:55 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
reactnextjs
emmafern/boob-and-poop
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 10 days
reactoutputsreact-jsbabyreactjs
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