Hilary Winn
Senior Software Engineer at Khan Academy
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHilary Winn is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable web applications and cloud infrastructure, currently at Khan Academy after leading engineering work at Amazon and Big Cartel. She specializes in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript, API design and AWS, and has repeatedly served as technical lead on full-stack projects delivering features for hundreds of thousands of users. Her background as an educator informs a pragmatic, collaborative approach to mentoring, documentation, and translating complex requirements into maintainable systems. Notable accomplishments include architecting an LLM-powered feature and secure APIs for One Medical, significantly improving Rails performance and frontend consistency at Fuigo, and driving accessibility and component-based practices at Big Cartel. Comfortable spanning backend architecture to frontend UX, she brings a bias for clarity, extensibility, and measurable impact. Based in Ashburn, VA, Hilary pairs pedagogical instincts with engineering rigor to elevate team practices as well as product quality.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA English Literature, BA English Literature at Georgetown UniversityWeb Development, Web Development at Flatiron SchoolM.Ed. Adolescent Education--English Language Arts, M.Ed. Adolescent Education--English Language Arts at Hunter CollegeTurkish culture language and history, Turkish culture language and history at McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Github Skills (20)
big-cartel9
chrome-extension4
phantomjs4
js3
npm3
javascript3
chrome3
npm-package3
css3
nodejs3
pdf-viewer2
pdf-files2
nyc2
pdf2
html2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hwinn4/ebae-final-project
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:57 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
hwinn4/template-engines-demo
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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