Vanessa Hurst
Co-Founder & Board Chair at Girl Develop It
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolVanessa Hurst is a technology leader, social entrepreneur, and educator with 13 years of experience building communities and engineering practice. As co-founder and board chair of Girl Develop It and founder of CodeMontage and Developers for Good, she has helped over 100,000 learners and mobilized thousands of technologists toward social impact. At Etsy she created an Engineering Practice group and advanced resilience engineering research, blending operational rigor with continuous learning. Her background spans data and analytics, database engineering, and product-focused technical leadership, from startups to high-growth consumer platforms. Based in Charlottesville, she pairs hands-on technical depth with a knack for designing low-cost, judgment-free learning environments that scale.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Systems & Information Engineering, B.S. Computer Science Systems & Information Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (18)
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javascript8
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gdi4
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wordpress1
hosts1
sustainability1
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
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