Moriko Handford
Swim Instructor at Boston Public Schools
Upton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMoriko Handford is a veteran software engineering leader transitioning from 30 years in tech to a new career in education while completing a degree in Middle Grade Education. With 11 years in senior engineering and management roles, she has driven DevOps transformations, introduced agile practices at scale, and built cross-functional teams that improved reliability, scalability, and customer success across organizations like Affectiva, Broad Institute, and Home Chef. She combines hands-on technical chops—from cloud architectures and automation to building Unity integrations—with a talent for mentoring distributed teams and creating new roles that close product–customer gaps. Notably, she lived abroad to directly coach international teammates and has led company-wide initiatives including GDPR compliance, major office moves, and internal developer events. Now based in Upton, MA, she applies her operational rigor and empathy to teaching water safety while preparing the next chapter as a middle-grade educator.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rhode Island CollegeBachelor of Arts EDUCATION, Bachelor of Arts EDUCATION at University of Illinois SpringfieldCoventry High School
English, Arabic, French, German, Japanese
Github Skills (33)
affdex-sdk10
api-hook9
rpm-spec9
licode8
linux8
windows8
webrtc7
chef-infra6
python6
test-kitchen6
devops5
portal5
tomcat5
automation5
infrastructure5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
EmployeeEmpowerment/EmpEmp
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Employee Empowerment SaaS
Contributions:1 release, 89 commits, 93 PRs in 1 year 4 months
empowermentsaas
Affectiva/UnityChan
Jan 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
chanunityemotion
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