# Tommasina Miller (she/her) > Empathetic Software Engineer Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tommasina I'm passionate about technology changing the way we see each other. Which technologies could expand our circle of compassion? How can knowing more about someone or some place change the story we tell? I'm a big-picture-oriented, creative, and collaborative software engineer seeking opportunities to make change. Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, Elixir, HTML, CSS, SASS, SQL, Python Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, Phoenix, Sinatra, Bootstrap, Express Tools: RSpec, Capybara, Mocha/Chai, Jest, Webmock/VCR, Selenium, Resque, Sidekiq, Git, OAuth, Github, Heroku Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Test-driven Development, Continuous Integration ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Nava Jan 2023 – Present Nava has a clear-eyed mission to make government services simple, effective, and accessible to all. I am thrilled to play a role on the team helping Veterans access their disability benefits faster. ### Software Engineer @ TeamSnap Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 I had a brief return to TeamSnap to work with some of the best humans, but I shared some teary good-byes when I was given an opportunity to follow a dream of mine to rejoin the public interest technology space with Nava. ### Senior Engineer @ Aktivate Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Aktivate is building a world-class mobile application to enable better communication between schools and families who participate in scholastic activities like sports and clubs. As someone who stayed late at school for clubs and sports more afternoons than not, I know how empowering these activities are for young people, and the importance of timely communication between family members and school leaders. I am thrilled to help bring automatic language translations, easy scheduling, messaging, and integration with Aktivate's other core products to families who need these tools so that their kids can live winning lives. ### Backend Engineer @ TeamSnap Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 TeamSnap helps people everywhere by making it easy to manage teams and organizations. I love getting to play a role in helping community events happen with less headache and manual input. As someone who identifies as a community organizer, I know that good tools can result huge time savings so that you can spend your time where it matters, whether on the field or water with your sports team, on the stage with your improv troupe, or wherever it is that your group gets together. ### Software Engineer @ Granicus Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Denver, CO Granicus is a company that aims to empower local, state, and federal governments with software that facilitates citizen engagement with their governments. I worked as a software engineer on a government and citizen-facing legislative and agenda management applications. As someone who grew up roaming the corridors of my city hall, serving as my city's first intern in high school, and directing the involvement of 2000 high school students in a city re-envisioning process, I was thrilled to play a role years later in facilitating the state and local government decision-making process by developing these important products. Additionally, I served as a coordinator for bi-weekly 90+ person engineering team Snack 'n' Learn events aimed at promoting cross-team collaboration and knowledge-sharing of software development best practices. In this role, I organized topic areas by technology, solicited requests for technical topics to cover, and recruited colleagues to present on the technologies ranging from Kafka, machine learning, Kubernetes, Blockchain, and AI. ### Chief Operating Officer @ NutritionFacts.org Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 As the COO for NutritionFacts.org, a public health website with over 2 million views a month, I was responsible for directing all operations, including filing nonprofit registration paperwork and taxes, coordinating payroll, managing our donor relations, building social media strategies and maintaining social media presence, coordinating thousands of remote volunteer efforts, and managing from 10-30 researchers at any one time. - I instituted a site help desk and ticket management system via ZenDesk to facilitate communications and to allow the team of volunteers to answer over 10,000 tickets a year. - By analyzing our site’s outreach statistics, improving the automation of routine outreach and personally responding to important requests, I cultivated warmer and more personalized donor relationships resulting in an 82% increase in yearly donations to well over a half million dollars in direct public support in 2015. - With the help of volunteers, I organized user surveys and development testing of site mobile-readiness and accessibility in order to better accommodate the 62% increase in user traffic over two years. - I created monthly social media schedules and honed postings to optimize reach and engagement, resulting in 285% increase in Facebook likes to 412,000 over two years. - I analyzed our quarterly financial statement, site traffic and social media statistics and created metrics and recommended strategies to the Board of Directors for increasing the impact of the site. ### Volunteer @ Sadhana Forest Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Auroville, India and Anse-a-Pitre, Haiti I was humbled to work alongside other volunteers reforesting land and learning about living a sustainable life. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Colorado State University Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ## Education ### Web Application Development Turing School of Software & Design Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ### Master of Arts (M.A.) in Political Science: Environmental Politics and Political Theory Colorado State University Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English Literature; Sustainability Studies; Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (summa cum laude) University of Florida Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tommasina --- Source: https://flows.cv/tommasina JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tommasina/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22