Kari Bancroft
Software Engineering Manager at Figma
United States
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Top SchoolKari Bancroft is a seasoned software engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading and scaling engineering teams across design-forward product companies like Figma and Webflow and enterprise retailers such as Nordstrom. She blends hands-on technical roots—from early C#, .NET and database work at Lockheed Martin to full-stack contributions in Ruby/Rails curriculum development for Ada Developers Academy—with strong people leadership in hiring, mentoring, and curriculum design. At Ada she built instructional tools that integrated GitHub-driven feedback loops and rewrote JavaScript curriculum to React, demonstrating a knack for translating educational needs into production-quality engineering solutions. Kari excels at bridging education, product, and engineering, prioritizing developer growth and operational rigor while delivering user-focused platforms. Based in the U.S., she brings a pragmatic, educator’s mindset to management, favoring measurable learning outcomes and tooling that scales with teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University at BuffaloMasters Software Engineering, Masters Software Engineering at Penn State Great Valley
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Github Skills (8)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails10
object-oriented-programming10
minitest9
jquery7
html5
css5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Ada-Developers-Academy/textbook-curriculum
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
Ada Developers Academy Online Curriculum
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:575 commits, 188 PRs, 304 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kari contributed to the Ada Developers Academy Online Curriculum by implementing Ruby fundamentals. They focused on defining classes, methods, and variable scopes within Ruby. Additionally, the user created exercises to practice class and method implementations and Rails template files, which included installing supporting gems and configuring project settings. The contributions spanned from code examples to setting up the foundation for the Rails application.
adacurriculumada-developers-academy
AdaGold/BankAccounts
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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