Erica Irving
Senior Engineering Manager at The Atlantic
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolErica Irving is a Senior Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building products and high-performing teams for major media organizations, currently leading engineering at The Atlantic. An academic-turned-engineer, she blends a humanities background from Yale and Cambridge with hands-on software work at The Washington Post and The Atlantic to create user-focused, editorially-aware applications. Erica specializes in navigating the attention economy, aligning product, engineering, and editorial priorities to deliver impactful experiences. She has a history of coaching and teaching—having instructed web development at General Assembly—which informs her people-first leadership and talent development. Based in Washington, DC, she brings a rare combination of curriculum design skills and production engineering discipline to media technology challenges.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Children's and Adolescent Literature, Master’s Degree Children's and Adolescent Literature at University of CambridgeBachelor’s Degree English, Bachelor’s Degree English at Yale UniversityHigh School Communication Arts Program, High School Communication Arts Program at Montgomery Blair High School
Github Skills (38)
js-object10
conditionals10
dom-element9
oop9
js8
react8
dom8
javascript8
nodejs8
ajax7
rails7
typescript7
sinatra7
graphql7
web-development7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ga-dc/wdi7
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Web Development Immersive 7 (Oct 12, 2015 - Jan 15, 2016)
Contributions:50 commits, 5 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 months
web-development
ebirving/ebirving.github.io
Jul 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 3 years
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