About

Allison Doami is a Senior Software Engineer at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where she supports initiatives that she is passionate about, including personalized learning in the classroom, tools to accelerate the process of finding a cure for all diseases, and solutions for affordable housing, community safety, and family support. With 3.35 years of relevant experience, Allison is a skilled software engineer with expertise in Snowflake, Terraform, infrastructure, Kubernetes, Apache Airflow, AWS, Docker, Databricks, ECS, Research Scientist, test, and Postgres. Allison's current role involves deploying and maintaining Superset at CZI using helm, Docker, and Kubernetes for all Science Data Scientists and their end users. She has also worked with the Snowflake team and Hashicorp team to handoff the Snowflake Provider from CZI to SnowflakeLabs. Additionally, Allison migrated infrastructure engineering's PagerDuty terraform infrastructure to OpsGenie. In her past role as a Software Engineer at CZI, Allison was the first Data Infrastructure Engineer hired, supporting all initiatives in education, science, and justice & opportunity. She standardized tools across the company, including Snowflake, Airflow, Amundsen, and data visualization tools like Periscope. Allison used terraform to manage AWS resources, taught others across the company good practices with Terraform, and created connectors for Snowflake's open-source project SnowAlert. She also worked on Airflow on Kubernetes by creating a new development environment for engineers and data scientists to safely test DAGs, building a new CICD pipeline, and designing a new credential management protocol. Allison has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, and graduated in 2019. She also attended Mira Costa High School from 2011 to 2015. Before joining CZI, Allison was a Freelance Photographer at Allison Doami Photography, where she took professional graduation photos for individuals and groups and managed booking clients on her own. Allison is a passionate and dedicated software engineer who is committed to making a positive impact through her work. She is always eager to learn and grow, and she is excited to continue making a difference at CZI.