Hope Tambala
Senior Software Engineer II at Etsy
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHope Tambala is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building user-centered web, mobile, and data systems, currently at Etsy. As a co-founder and principal architect of Puente, she designs digital platforms for international health and development, translating field-driven needs from her Peace Corps experience in the Dominican Republic into scalable technical solutions. Her background in HCI (University of Michigan) and hands-on community health work informs a pragmatic approach to design systems and product engineering, emphasizing trust-building, cultural nuance, and measurable impact. Hope has led cross-functional teams and overseen 16 rural latrine projects, a rare mix of program management and technical delivery that helps her identify high-leverage user needs. Equally comfortable shipping production systems at media and healthcare companies (The Washington Post, Cityblock) and mentoring design-system integration, she brings both operational rigor and mission-driven empathy to engineering challenges. Based in Los Angeles, she pairs international development perspective with senior-level product and design-systems expertise to create sustainable, user-focused software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Chemistry, Bachelor of Science Chemistry at University of MichiganMaster of Science in Information Human-Computer Interaction, Master of Science in Information Human-Computer Interaction at University of Michigan - School of Information
English, Spanish
Github Skills (102)
network-graph10
brightscript10
network-visualization10
hierarchy10
chartjs-plugin10
backend10
hierarchical-clustering10
mobile-application10
cloud-application10
node-server10
d3js10
hierarchical-data10
back4app10
redux10
enclosure10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pineapple-699/pineapple-reactNative
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:53 PRs, 94 pushes, 38 branches in 3 months
d4gumich/data4good-django
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Data4Good Django Application built with Semantic UI
Contributions:40 commits, 37 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 months
pythondata4gooddjango-rest-frameworkdjangodjango-application
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