Zoe Ames
Senior Technology Manager at lululemon
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolZoe Ames is a Senior Technology Manager with 11 years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience building scalable, customer-focused web applications. She excels at translating complex, multi-country initiatives into clear roadmaps and reusable architectures, having designed an internationalization solution serving 8 languages across 26 countries and a component-based design system. A mentorship-driven manager, Zoe has doubled team size through inclusive recruiting, created junior developer programs, and consistently raises engineering quality via linting, unit testing, and CI pipelines. Her background spans front-end modernization (AngularJS to React), backend decoupling, and DevOps automation—delivering measurable improvements like 75% faster releases and 90% reduced downtime. Combining an MBA from Vanderbilt with a research-rooted STEM foundation in physics and astronomy, she brings both analytical rigor and product empathy to cross-functional collaboration. Based in Nashville, she is known for pairing big-picture strategy with pragmatic developer-first processes that accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Physics, Master's Degree Physics at San Francisco State UniversityBachelor's Degree Astronomy and Physics, Bachelor's Degree Astronomy and Physics at Smith CollegeMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of ManagementApprentice Developer Software Development, Apprentice Developer Software Development at Nashville Software School
Github Skills (57)
nss9
openui57
front-end-development7
web-development6
javascript5
django3
angular3
react3
rails3
stimulusjs3
flying3
css3
ruby2
tango2
milestone2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nss-nightclass-projects/e7-homework
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:78 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
nss-evening-cohort-11/e11-homework
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.