Who am I?

Mandy has over 15 years of professional software development experience with a primary focus on full-stack web applications. Mandy is currently an Associate Director at Postlight. Her role there includes full contribution as a developer and also has a team she manages. Her work there has included leading the new onboarding efforts, labs projects and mentorship program. She believes in the servant-leader approach to management and tries to fully advocate for her team whenever possible.

Before Postlight, Mandy was a Principal Engineer at Vestmark, a fintech company based in Boston. Her focus there was on full-stack .NET web apps and AWS technologies. She spearheaded the conversion of the SaaS application into the latest .NET framework and the migration from MSSQL to Postgres. This lowered costs by over 50%. She also led efforts to host the application fully in AWS.

Mandy was previously a Lead Developer at Calamos Investments and, from 2010 to early 2015, a Team Lead at Advanced Objects. At Advanced Objects she was responsible for the development of core proposal generation functionality as well as end-to-end development of custom applications such as PowerShares University, NXT Capital’s portfolio modeling tool, and annuity-centric calculators for New York Life. She also was a Technical Architect and Consultant for closerlook (healthcare) and Clarity Consulting.

Mandy obtained a Masters of Information Systems from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Science in Public Affairs from Indiana University.