Summary
Vale Hettlinger is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performing web applications and front-end architectures, currently leading UI and API efforts at Indiana University Bloomington. Specializing in front-end interfaces, she designed an Angular component library that cut duplicated code and led front-end architecture for apps serving 100,000+ users while contributing hundreds of bug fixes and improving team testing and CI/CD practices. She pairs an MS in Human-Computer Interaction Design with a BS in Computer Science to advocate for usability, accessibility, and pragmatic developer workflows, and mentors junior engineers. Notably, she helped lay groundwork for a native mobile app using Flutter and routinely finds efficiency gains by reducing redundancies in code and processes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS Human-Computer Interaction Design , MS Human-Computer Interaction Design at Indiana University Bloomington
Academic Honors Diploma, Academic Honors Diploma at Avon High School
French, French at Université Stendhal Grenoble 3
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology