Summary
Megan Avery is an Assistant Professor and former software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web products, particularly in Java and React, and a strong academic foundation with BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from UT Austin. She shipped customer-facing features at Indeed—such as resume-based apply flows, SMS opt-ins, calendar sync, and robust message handling—and has interned at Google, Union Pacific, and The Home Depot contributing analytics, integrations, and internal tooling. Now in academia at St. Edward’s University, she combines practical production experience with teaching and tutoring, bringing real-world engineering practices into the classroom. Comfortable across databases (Mongo, SQL), CI tooling, and Linux, she has a knack for simplifying onboarding flows and production debugging—skills honed while migrating templates and capping message requeues. Based in Austin, Megan blends hands-on engineering pragmatism with an educator’s focus on clear, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin