Alana Hanson
Summary
Full-stack developer looking for high quality products to develop and interesting problems to solve.
Experience
8/'19 to 7/'20
Site Reliability Engineer |
Amount ·
Chicago, IL
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- Migrating existing cloud infrastructure and networking to accommodate tech department splitting off into separate company
- Writing libraries and scripts to add more automation to routine tasks (e.g. a Python wrapper for the Hashicorp Vault API)
- Writing and updating terraform modules to maintain reusability and backwards compatibility
- Assisting developers with deployment and infrastructure issues
10/'18 to 8/'19
Backend Engineer |
DivvyDOSE ·
Chicago, IL
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- Added major features and third-party integrations to Flask pharmacy application, including automated credit card processing and an automated insurance refill process
- Updated existing MVP to enhance performance of complex SQL queries as customers increase and scalability became a higher priority
- Improved unit test coverage and increased speed of test runs
- Created and advocated for proposal to introduce local automated feature testing to improve confidence in deploys
5/'16 to 10/'18
Software Engineer |
Leapfrog Online ·
Evanston, IL
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- Developed and maintained company's primary platform and a real-time lead monitoring tool (both Rails-based)
- Built and iterated on Python and/or Django-based microservices to integrate with main platform
- Spearheaded effort to monitor application crashes more effectively with Sentry
- Built integrations with Facebook ads and several Google-owned advertising services
- Worked one-on-one with manager on strategy to enhance fair hiring practices
- Led effort to redesign and improve onboarding process for new engineers
Skills
Backend
Python,
Ruby,
Django,
Rails,
Redis,
Postgres,
Git/Github,
SQLAlchemy,
Sinatra,
Flask
Frontend
React/Redux,
JavaScript,
Angular
Testing
Rspec,
Unittest / Mock,
Capybara,
Selenium,
Jasmine,
Sinon,
Chai,
Pytest
Infrastructure/Tooling
Jenkins,
AWS,
Consul,
Docker,
Terraform,
Vault,
Cloudflare,
Datadog,
Sentry
Education
2011
Loyola University Chicago |
MA Women's Studies and Gender Studies
2009
Northwestern University |
BA English Literature
Volunteering
1/'17 to 2/'17
Chicago Public Library · Co-instructor of 4-week Intro to Python course |
3/'16 to 6/'16
Girl Develop It · Teaching Assistant |