Melanie Gilman
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMelanie Gilman is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas with 14 years of experience building web applications and developer-facing features. She has been at GitHub since 2019, progressing from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer and focusing on scalable, collaborative tooling that supports large developer communities. Her background includes senior engineering roles at Muve Health and hands-on consulting-style development at thoughtbot, giving her strong product judgment and polished implementation skills across the stack. Melanie began her career via an intensive Ruby on Rails training program and brings deep pragmatic experience in rapid iteration and team-driven code quality. With an academic foundation in neuroscience from Columbia, she pairs analytical rigor with user-centered engineering—often approaching problems from unexpected, cross-disciplinary angles.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Neuroscience and Behavior, B.S., Neuroscience and Behavior at Columbia University
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Github Skills (33)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
stripe8
twitter-api8
slack-bot8
get-started7
codeclimate7
eventmachine6
probot6
react5
twitter5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mrgilman/recime
May 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 1 year 8 months
mrgilman/rails
Jan 2015 - Jul 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 7 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
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