Summary
Melanie Gin is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building user-centered technology and programmatic solutions that advance equity and belonging. She blends hands-on full‑stack experience from Etsy—where she built localization, translation pipelines, and search linguistic tools for a global marketplace—with strategic product and program leadership at Code for America, guiding government partnerships toward racial and economic mobility outcomes. As a founder of a State Department-funded social enterprise in Palestine, she has led engineering teams to deliver high‑completion educational platforms while practicing servant leadership. Comfortable shifting between code, policy, and community engagement, Melanie brings a rare mix of technical depth, ethical curiosity, and operational rigor rooted in a long-standing commitment to justice and human-centered design.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
University of California, Los Angeles