hi — I'm Amanda ☺

I've spent 26 years building software that feels less like software.

Senior full-stack engineer in Nashville building Angular front ends (React when it fits), .NET back ends, and UX to the core. Currently building, and teaching AI agents good manners in production codebases. My favorite tools are still a scrap of paper and honest customer feedback.

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Amanda Myers
somewhere with a view, probably

Selected work

(the good stuff)

Twenty-six years is a lot of shipping. These are the entries I'd dog-ear.

Kapoq · 2021 — now

Making a brownfield codebase a safe place for AI agents

Here since before the first customer, and now it's profitable. Full-stack on a multi-tenant SaaS platform — Angular v21 and reactive state, ASP.NET Core on EF Core, ClickHouse behind tenant reporting. Alongside it: encoding the design system where coding agents actually read it, so what they generate lands on pattern instead of beside it.

Angular v21ASP.NET CoreClickHouseClaude Code
HealthStream · 2016 — 21

A design system an entire ecosystem could agree on

Started the design system across business units and coded it — tokens, a component library, and the front-end architecture behind the MyTeam dashboard. Designers and developers finally worked from one source of truth, with usage guidance and handoff rules that made it stick past launch. Research kept it honest about what was worth solving.

Component libraryFront-end architectureDesign tokens
Cigna-HealthSpring · 2013 — 16

A portal one million providers rely on

Designed the member portal, then built it in .NET MVC — the front end and the controllers behind it. Led the Provider Portal redesign for 1M+ providers, grounded in on-site visits and interviews with the people using it every day. Took Bootstrap org-wide and sat in on UI decisions across 10+ teams.

.NET MVCFront-end lead1M+ users

also: I literally wrote the book — Idiot's Guide: Web Design with HTML and CSS

The toolbox

(what I build with, daily)

Not tools a project handed me — tools I've gone deep on. Front-end architecture for 20+ years; shipping .NET since the early 2000s.

Front end
Angular, deeply — standalone components, signals and native control flow, through the v21 modernization TypeScript & RxJS — reactive state design, not just consumption React when it was the right fit Sass, responsive layouts Design systems & a11y — built them at three companies
Back end
.NET since the early 2000s — Classic ASP → MVC → .NET 9, currently ASP.NET Core in production REST API design & review Entity Framework Core SQL Server ClickHouse analytics
Design & data viz
Figma → coded components Design tokens Apache ECharts User research & prototyping
AI-assisted dev
Claude Code & Cursor across brownfield and greenfield codebases MCP tooling & agent skills AGENTS.md instruction bridges Keeping generated code on pattern — the design system as guardrails agents can follow ~5x productivity — humans still lay eyes on the code

Day to day at Kapoq: features end-to-end — Angular components and reactive state, ASP.NET Core APIs on EF Core, SQL Server schema, ClickHouse queries powering tenant-facing reporting.

The road so far

(1999 → today)

From Classic ASP to coding agents. It's been a ride.

2021 — nowSenior front-end software developer · Kapoq, Franklin TNfront-end dev, agents & design systems
2019 — 21Platform Design Manager · HealthStreamdesign strategy across business units
2016 — 19Senior Developer, UX · HealthStreamstarted the design system — in code
2013 — 16Senior Software Developer · Cigna-HealthSpringthe 1M-provider portal
2008 — 13Senior Software Developer · nTelagenthealthcare payments, PCI Level 1
2007 — 08Senior Developer / Dynamics Specialist · Sommet GroupHR portal, n-tier
2006 — 07Senior Software Developer · SAICU.S. Navy records systems
2004 — 06Senior Software Developer · Gibson Guitaryes, that Gibson
2002 — 04Owner & Software Developer · Pensacola Softwaremy own shop — medical examiner & shipping systems
1999 — 03Software Developer · DeSai Systems & CEDwhere it all started
Florida State University — Graphic Design & Computer ScienceUniversity of West Florida — Computer Information Systems

After hours

(where the good ideas come from)

Persistence, curiosity, and an obsessive attention to detail define me — but the curiosity doesn't clock out. You'll find me under a dark sky, on a trail, or elbow-deep in watercolors.

The Milky Way arcing over a lifeguard tower on a dark beach
chasing stars ✦
Handlebars of a mountain bike on a wooded singletrack trail
knobby tires > pavement
Amanda holding a camera to her eye, backlit
a camera, always
A watercolor of a dandelion scattering into splashes of color
watercolors on Sunday
okay, your turn —

Let's find some common stars.

The title matters less to me than the problem — front end, full stack, design systems, it's the same work from different angles. If you're wrangling a brownfield codebase, keeping coding agents on pattern, or figuring out what AI-assisted development actually looks like in production, that's a conversation worth having.

(the fastest way to reach me is the oldest one)