Hey, I'm Autumn

- Let's hear your best season joke.

Software engineer residing in Atlanta

I like spicy food, fostering dogs, and trying not to die while cycling through the city.

I don't like doing the dishes or doing things half way.

My married name is Wright, but most of my digital properties use my maiden name, Calhoun. That Github history is more important than a legal union!

Previous Work

Autumn Wright

404-859-2086
autumn@autumncalhoun.com
Atlanta, Georgia

Summary

I believe that everyone can be successful if they have access to the right tools and the right information. I feel compelled to build great digital experiences for human beings at work. I feel successful when I leave something better than when I found it. I hate two things: doing things halfway and doing the dishes.

Tech

Client
  • HTML
  • CSS (vanilla, SCSS)
  • Javascript & Typescript
  • ReactJS
  • Angular.io
  • Three.js
  • Electron
Server
  • NextJS
  • Prisma.io
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Postgres
Tools
  • Jasmine / Karma
  • Jest
  • React Testing Library
  • Cypress
  • Microsoft Playwright
  • Webpack
  • Sentry.io
  • VSCode
  • Custom Github Actions
  • Storybook

Experience

Software Engineer
Toolpath, November 2022 - Present
  • Built UI for a mature security product targeting developers and technical personnel
  • React app, TS, graphql, React Relay, CSS modules, CSS variables, Storybook, Yarn workspaces, Jest, React Testing Library
  • Participated in daily pair programming with a small rotation of partners.
  • Organized technical backlog items for a small front end team, alongside general feature work.
  • Coauthored a new electron app to successfully scale the product for a beta customer.
  • Implemented playwright for E2E tests and wrote multiple "sanity" tests around critical user flows
  • Produced both unit tests and integration tests during feature work, using Jest and React Testing Library.
  • Proactively contributed to developer happiness improvements, like improving linter configuration and writing living documentation stories using Storybook.
  • Participated in department wide "bug sweeps" and rotations on support escalation
Senior Frontend Engineer
StrongDM, September 2021 - December 2022
  • Built UI for a mature security product targeting developers and technical personnel
  • React app, TS, graphql, React Relay, CSS modules, CSS variables, Storybook, Yarn workspaces, Jest, React Testing Library
  • Participated in daily pair programming with a small rotation of partners.
  • Organized technical backlog items for a small front end team, alongside general feature work.
  • Coauthored a new electron app to successfully scale the product for a beta customer.
  • Implemented playwright for E2E tests and wrote multiple "sanity" tests around critical user flows
  • Produced both unit tests and integration tests during feature work, using Jest and React Testing Library.
  • Proactively contributed to developer happiness improvements, like improving linter configuration and writing living documentation stories using Storybook.
  • Participated in department wide "bug sweeps" and rotations on support escalation
Senior Software Engineer - Frontend
CallRail, March 2019 - September 2021
  • Shipping a thousand tiny things as fast as possible.
Senior Frontend Engineer
STORD, November 2018 - March 2019
  • Advocated for and began implementation of domain-driven design in a fast growing Rails application, including renaming Models and associations to reflect the ubiquitous language of the team.
  • Added modern JavaScript tooling, Webpack + React to the application. Also advocated for and helped implement a GraphQL API endpoint.
  • Corrected flaky integration specs, wrote unit tests above required coverage standards
  • Deployed code multiple times daily to production
  • Monitored error tracking software reports (Sentry) and fixed critical bugs
  • Proactively identified problem areas of the code base and surfaced long term strategies for addressing them
  • Created wireframes for future products and mockups for immediate improvements to UI
  • Mentored junior developers by providing code reviews, strategies for tackling large problems, and weekly in-depth discussions of Object Oriented design principles.
Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead
CallRail, October 2017 - November 2018
  • Technical lead for Reporting team, which empowers users by surfacing curated, delightful, portable data
  • Helps guide product roadmap by providing projections for long term projects, breaking down features into technical architecture needs, and overseeing technical delivery.
  • Reviews code for team members, providing actionable feedback aimed at improving the code base and thoughtfully implementing product features
  • Shares domain knowledge across the development organization by participating in the Front End Guild and creating and leading Front End Onboarding sessions for new developers.
  • Debugs and triages bugs for team and developer assignment
  • Runs Agile ceremonies (stand ups, sprint planning, sprint retros) and product backlog grooming
  • Pairs with team members for feature work and prototyping
Software Engineer
CallRail, December 2015 - October 2017
  • Builds a UI kit for use by application developers, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components and documentation
  • Builds product features using AngularJS, Angular.io, and Ruby on Rails
  • Refactors code to use best practices and provide efficiencies, including creating viable paths to upgrading frameworks (from AngularJS to Angular.io)
  • Works as part of a front-end focused team to rebrand the application and streamline implementation of new UI patterns using team-developed code review strategies
  • Writes maintainable code that meets or exceeds test coverage standards for Angular and Ruby

Education

B.A., History; minors in Spanish, Education
Millsaps College, 2004-2008
  • Cumulative GPA: 3.9
  • Excellent Score Oral & Written Comprehensive Exams
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude
  • 2007-2008 Velma Jernigan Rodgers Scholarship Award recipient
    Presented to the rising senior woman who has the highest GPA in the humanities.