Ellen Nitchals
Platform Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEllen Nitchals is a Platform Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with eight years of experience building reliable web platforms and improving developer workflows. She has a track record of shipping pragmatic platform improvements—at Ghost she led initiatives that cut time-to-list for new inventory and prototyped AI-driven integrations with Slack and HubSpot. Ellen blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration, having taught and onboarded engineers and instructed cohorts of aspiring developers. Her background spans full-stack product work, on-call incident response, and improving QA practices through exploratory testing. In her spare time she experiments with GPT-4 and the OpenAI API, exploring practical ways AI can accelerate product delivery and user discovery.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Academy, Software Engineering & Computer Science, Computer Science Academy, Software Engineering & Computer Science at BloomTechBachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy at Willamette University
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Github Skills (36)
python10
css10
user-interface10
flexbox10
connected-components10
html10
bootstrap-ui10
auth10
unit-testing9
django9
api9
web-testing9
backend9
sprint9
frontend8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
enitchals/monty-hall
Feb 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches, 2 issues in 6 years 2 months
enitchals/snake
Oct 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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