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Hi there! 👋 My name is Alison Killen (she/her)

I like coding, learning by doing, and building new projects.

About Me:

👋 Fullstack software engineer based in Australia
👩‍💻 July 2024 - current: I'm exploring a new role as an ICT Officer at Alpine Resorts Victoria at Mt Buller/Mt Stirling, improving my networking and cybersecurity skills
🌐 I have experience with JS, React, NodeJS, C#, .NET, SQL, Typescript, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, ExpressJS, and MongoDB.



  • Jan 2024 - July 2024: Career break and travelling! 🌲
  • Jan 2023 - Jan 2024: Software Engineer at Mandalay Technologies (Angular NGRX, Typescript, C#, .NET, Blazor)
  • November 2022: Women in Digital Awards Finalist - Rising Star of the Year 🎊
  • September 2021 - November 2022: Software Engineer at Blackbook.AI (C#, JS, DwKit framework).
  • May-September 2021: Web Developer at Digital Six (ReactJS, NextJS).
  • 👩‍🏫 October 2021 - Present: Intermittent contract work as a mentor with She Codes Australia during their coding bootcamps for women
  • May 2021: completed an internship at Blackbook.AI
  • March 2021: completed software development internship at Dingo Software - built a full-stack MERN app with 2 other interns to help Dingo visualise mining asset health
  • 📚 Jan 2021 graduated from an intensive web development coding bootcamp at Coder Academy. Recipient of Coder Academy's Diversity in Tech Scholarship ⭐


  • 🎓 I'm commited to continuing my learning journey as a developer
  • 💻 Coder Academy capstone project - MERN stack eCommerce site for a client starting a women's motorcycle apparel business: She Rydes Repo
  • 📚 Building my tech stack and developer skills as I go by building projects
  • 🌈 Passionate about diversity and inclusion in tech
  • 🍕 Love attending meetups and events like Brisbane LGBT+ and Allies in Tech, Brisbane Tech Newbies, Women Who Code Brisbane, DevOps Girls, Code Like a Girl, Australian Women in Security Network.
  • 🎨 Learning to create CSS Art and Pixel Art with code - my Codepen
  • 👽 I like swimming, video games, playing music, reading scifi and history, and travelling.


Tech Stack and Tools:

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