Erin Fahy
Director Of Engineering, Audience Mission at The New York Times
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolErin Fahy is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building resilient infrastructure and high-performing teams across journalism, civic tech, and distributed web projects. Currently Director of Engineering for Audience Mission at The New York Times, she blends product-focused leadership with deep systems expertise honed as a CTO at Civitech and an infrastructure manager at Protocol Labs. Erin’s background spans academia to startups—Senior DevOps roles at Stanford and systems work in higher education—giving her a rare fluency in operational rigor, metadata, and scalable audience systems. She brings a librarian’s attention to data and discoverability from her MLS in Digital Librarianship, which informs pragmatic, auditable approaches to engineering and governance. Based in San Francisco, she’s known for turning complex policy and data requirements into reliable, production-grade platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History & Philosophy, BA, History & Philosophy at Mount Holyoke CollegeMLS, Digital Librarianship, MLS, Digital Librarianship at Simmons University
Github Skills (116)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sul-dlss-labs/identifier-service
Dec 2017 - Mar 2023
Identifiers API and microservice for proxy calls to mint or list DRUIDs, other identifiers.
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 years 3 months
golangapiproxycallsmint
eefahy/eefahy.github.io
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
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