# Allison Brown

> Frontend Software Engineer - Search - Airbnb

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/allisonbrown

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
- Led or significantly contributed to 6 application pilots as the frontend expert. Used React, Remix, Tailwind, Storybook, Playwright, and Prisma to quickly design, build and deliver features to teachers
- Extracted service from application to allow for reusability
- Proactively collaborated with managers in securing additional resources and organized tasks for the new team members in order to ensure we met our product deadlines
- Independently working cross functionally and cross org to clarify requirements, gather input from more experienced engineers, pull in subject matter experts as needed, filed bugs and met cross team to deliver high quality, well tested features quickly
- Presented/co-presented org wide tech talks on ‘Using Markdown in Remix’, ‘Theming your Tailwind Config`, and ‘Design and Engineer Collaboration’

### Lead Frontend Engineer - Service Catalog @ Salesforce
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Senior Frontend Engineer - Service Catalog @ Salesforce
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Employee Service Catalog Builder UI
- Scrum lead enabling small UI team to deliver an entirely new product to GA in less than a year.
- UI point of contact to UX, PM, Leadership, partner teams.
- Collaborated with Contractors, Product Management, UX, Leadership and cross org engineers to design, architect, implement and test a no-code, automation backed service catalog builder.
- Designed, implemented and tested a reusable, generic, fully keyboard and screen reader accessible drag and drop framework.
- Designed and engineered complex and user friendly JavaScript features while ensuring high test coverage and maintainable code
- Led alignment and scoping meetings to align UI, backend, UX, Product and Leadership. 
- Maintained Jenkins builds for code integration from git to perforce
- Accessibility Champion for team

### Senior Frontend Engineer - Einstein Search @ Salesforce
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Einstein Search
- Rebuilt Salesforce's most used feature for fewer clicks to relevant information or records. 
- Updated existing components for improved performance (20% improvement in Experienced Page Time)
- Intern mentor on large, customer impacting project
- Accessibility champion for org - worked with external auditors to identify and fix any gaps to meet the WAG 2.1 standard for all of Salesforce Search

### Frontend Engineer - Search UI @ Salesforce
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Search UI (2017-2019)
- Sole accessibility contact for Search UI
- Lead the design and implementation of multiple Aura and LWC components and features.
- Migrated lookup component to LWC for client side performance gains
- Rewrote entire test suite to be more maintainable and have better coverage
- Worked closely with Architects of Lightning Web Components on designing a reusable base component to support Lookups

### Frontend Developer - Lightning App Builder @ Salesforce
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Lightning App Builder (2016-2017)
- Designed, implemented and tested new Dynamic Lightning Pages feature that involved complex JavaScript to allow users to show components on a page based on multiple conditions.
- Worked with intern to design and implement error handling UI
- Created multiple utility files to help code maintainability and reduce duplicate code
- Work was featured in Dreamforce '17 
- Multiple org and company wide demos of feature

Lightning Web Components - Base Components (May-Aug 2016)
- Asked to join tiger team to work with the Lightning Web Components team designing, implementing, testing and documenting open source base components

### Associate Software Engineer - Lightning App Builder @ Salesforce
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Lightning App Builder
- Refactored dialogs in the builder to use new framework
- Implemented walk through UI components to show users how the builder worked
- Worked cross team to create base Aura application that could be used in multiple builders
- Simplified how new page types and libraries were created to improve scalability 
- Reduced first load time by 200ms by reducing and combining server calls
- Reduced first load time by nearly 2 seconds by refactoring Aura components

### Quality Engineering Intern @ salesforce.com
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### Summer Technology Analyst - Application Developer @ JPMorgan Chase
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Baylor University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### N/A in Dual Credit
Bellevue College
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/allison-brown-6057ab47

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Last updated: 2026-03-22