Lisa Guthrie
Independent AI Developer at Lake Washington School District
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLisa Guthrie is an independent AI developer and former Microsoft program manager with 15+ years of engineering and program leadership experience, now focused on open-source AI infrastructure that improves K–12 data accessibility. She pairs deep technical chops across Python, React, and cloud tools with product and program leadership earned at Microsoft’s Developer Division and in long-running customer-facing engineering roles. As an elected board member and current president of a large Washington state school district, she uniquely blends governance experience with hands-on data tooling—examples include an MCP server enabling natural-language queries of statewide assessment data and a School Improvement Plan dashboard that parses hundreds of PDF pages into searchable insights. She’s delivered measurable cost optimizations in AI workflows (prompt caching for ~90% cost reduction) and builds tools explicitly designed for evidence-based policy decisions. Based in Redmond, she’s equally at home translating stakeholder priorities into technical roadmaps and mentoring teams to deliver scalable, mission-driven solutions.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Brown University
Github Skills (55)
azure-app-configuration10
visual-studio-mac10
microsoft10
scripting10
asp-net-core10
microsoft-azure10
asp-net10
visual-studio10
appconfig10
visual-studio-extension10
visual-studio-for-mac10
appsettings10
arm10
azure10
bicep9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lisaguthrie/AZDSDemo
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
lisaguthrie/jobdumper
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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