Brittany Ellich
Senior Product Engineer at Overcommitted
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrittany Ellich is a Staff Software Engineer at GitHub with nine years of experience building full‑stack systems and commerce infrastructure, recently focused on metered billing at scale. She pivoted into software engineering by completing a bachelor's in software development in eight months while working full time, and has progressed through roles at Hippo Education, Nike, and consulting engagements. A developer advocate at heart, she regularly speaks at conferences, co-hosts the Overcommitted podcast, and writes The Balanced Engineer newsletter to help engineers grow technically while maintaining sustainable careers. Her technical breadth spans Ruby on Rails, Go, C#/Dotnet, JavaScript/React, and cloud migrations on AWS, with hands-on leadership in replatforming and payments integrations. Deeply committed to inclusion and accessibility, she mentors engineers—especially women—helping them see long-term possibilities in tech.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Health (MPH), Environmental and Occupational Health, Master of Public Health (MPH), Environmental and Occupational Health at Oregon State UniversityBachelor's of Science, Software Development, Bachelor's of Science, Software Development at Western Governors University
Github Skills (32)
continuous-testing10
rocket10
viewcomponent10
runner10
vscode-extension9
web-development9
vscode8
logistics7
ruby-on-rails7
tencent-cloud6
horizon6
rails6
ruby6
github-copilot5
github4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
knot-games/cloud-tycoon
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
☁️ Clouds are on the horizon. Are you ready?
Contributions:15 reviews, 54 commits, 36 PRs in 18 days
horizoncloudstencent-cloudlogistics
brittanyellich/brittanyellichblog
Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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