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Allison MacMillan

Engineering Manager specializing in programmatic advertising and large-scale backend systems

San Francisco, CASoftware Engineering Manager7 years experienceDirectorAdTechProgrammatic AdvertisingMedia & Entertainment
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Engineering manager with recent hands-on technical leadership in vendor-based geo augmentation, including making a key pivot from a broken vendor SDK to an internal data ingestion approach. Previously shipped impactful Python microservice refactors that reduced unnecessary data processing/storage and improved runtime payload efficiency, and has owned on-call incidents through mitigation (scaling pods) and prevention process changes.

Experience

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CORE Technology Associate (Rotational Program)Comcast NBCUniversal
Automated UI testingComcast
Printer firmwareHewlett Packard Inc.

Education

University of Colorado, Boulderbachelor, Computer Science (2019)

Key Strengths

  • Leads technical decision-making under vendor/SDK uncertainty (pivoted to internal ingestion)
  • Strong code review and bug-finding; unblocks engineers with targeted commits/mentorship
  • Improved service efficiency via Python microservice refactor to reduce unnecessary data storage/payload size
  • End-to-end incident handling (diagnosis, coordination, mitigation via scaling, and prevention workflow)
  • Effective coaching to improve engineer throughput (smaller PRs led to higher velocity)
  • Increased delivery speed by reducing context switching through consolidated team ceremonies

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Languages

English

Skills

PythonC++AWSAWS LambdaTerraformAnsibleAerospikeOpenRTBProgrammatic advertisingDemand-side platform (DSP)Microservice architectureBackend engineeringLarge-scale system designTechnical architectureCode quality