Helen Hood
Senior Software Engineer at Airotone
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHelen Hood is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building and shipping web products across startups and small companies. She has held senior roles at Gumroad and Innovate Labs and now contributes at Airotone after a brief staff engineering stint at Antiwork, demonstrating versatility in both product and platform work. Helen's background spans hands-on engineering, mentorship, and teaching—she built things and taught people to code at Launch Academy—and she frequently shares work under the handle @hchood on Twitter and GitHub. Prior to tech she brought analytical rigor from roles in clinical research and antitrust paralegal work, which informs her pragmatic, data-informed approach to engineering decisions. Colleagues describe her as a steady senior engineer who thrives in mission-driven teams and mentors others while still being deeply involved in code.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A Biology, B.A Biology at Williams College
French
Github Skills (75)
echo10
internationalization10
i18next10
vpn9
middleware9
icu9
localization9
micro-framework9
lantern9
websocket9
accelerator9
ssl9
csrf-protection9
translation9
router9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hchood/masterminder
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:150 commits, 35 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year
hchood/homebrew-review
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:26 PRs, 23 pushes, 15 branches in 6 days
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