Erika Ellison
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErika Ellison is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building production software across major Seattle tech employers, currently contributing at Microsoft after a recent senior stint at GitHub. She brings deep hands-on expertise in shipping reliable systems at scale, having repeatedly returned to and grown within high-impact engineering teams at Microsoft and Redfin. Erika pairs pragmatic engineering with community-minded mentorship, evidenced by her volunteer co-teaching with TEALS to broaden access to computer science. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she combines a formal CS background from Evergreen and coursework at the University of Washington with a developer’s practical ethos — literally “turning coffee into code.” Colleagues value her consistency and institutional knowledge: she’s the kind of engineer who moves between companies yet stays focused on delivery, maintainability, and team enablement.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The Evergreen State College
Github Skills (32)
cli10
command-line9
golang9
command-line-tool9
large-files8
github-api-v48
utility8
git-addons8
git8
libgit27
git-lfs7
alt7
go7
github7
version-control7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
merchantos/MerchantOS-Highrise-Sync
Apr 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:21 commits in 2 months
erikaellr/dotfiles
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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