Helena Converse
Principal AI Architect at McLean Forrester
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHelena Converse is a Principal AI Architect with 11 years of software engineering experience, recently transitioning from a long tenure as Lead Software Engineer at World Wide Technology to an AI-focused leadership role at McLean Forrester. She brings full‑stack fluency—React, Angular, Node.js, Ruby on Rails—plus infrastructure and cloud automation expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and SQL. Comfortable across languages from Python and Go to legacy Java/C/C++, she blends hands‑on coding with system design to productionize ML and AI solutions. Based in Missouri, she excels at bridging front-end UX expectations with robust back-end and deployment pipelines. A pragmatic problem-solver, she often leans on her scripting and ops background to reduce deployment friction and accelerate model delivery.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSCS Computer Science, BSCS Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Spanish
Github Skills (9)
aws7
scaffold7
css6
boto6
javascript6
testing6
react5
nextjs4
infrastructure3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LaunchCoderGirlSTL/javascript-koans
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Koans to learn Javascript
Contributions:23 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year
learn-javascriptjavascriptkoans
n3rdgir1/djreact
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 PRs, 20 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 8 months
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