Mary Dickson
Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Virtru
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMary Dickson is a Senior Developer Experience Engineer and seasoned full-stack software leader with 11 years of experience delivering Ruby on Rails-driven products and improving developer tooling. She combines hands-on engineering—shiping performant backend features, SDKs and integrations—with people leadership, mentoring teams to translate technical vision into clear execution. Her background spans startup and healthcare platforms, credentialing and marketplace experiences, and recent roles focused on developer experience and SDK support. Mary pairs technical depth in Rails, Go, and cloud services with a practical knack for performance tuning and reliability improvements that measurably sped up APIs and workflows. Outside engineering, she brings teaching and nonprofit fundraising experience that sharpens her communication, stakeholder alignment, and product empathy. Based in Seattle, she’s known for moving projects from concept to production while making complex systems more approachable for developers.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. English, B.A. English at University of MarylandData Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures and Algorithms at Kal AcademyRuby on Rails Development Certificate HTML CSS JavaScript JQuery Python Ruby on Rails, Ruby on Rails Development Certificate HTML CSS JavaScript JQuery Python Ruby on Rails at Code Fellows
Github Skills (34)
corpus10
wikipedia10
foundation9
bots9
dashboard8
intermediate7
dump7
transition7
buffalo7
mongoid6
rails6
python6
fsm-library6
in-progress6
rapid5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
marythought/fibonacci
Sep 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 11 months
fibonacci-sequencefibonaccisequencebdd
marythought/data-structures
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:42 commits, 29 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 3 months
profitdata-structuresfor-fun
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