Alanna Mclafferty

Alanna is part of the KickUp team as a full-stack developer. As a senior member of the engineering team, she helps build and improve KickUp’s software products and platform. She also coordinates KickUp’s engineering apprenticeship program. During her undergraduate studies, she was employed by the University of Alberta as a teaching assistant and as a summer research assistant. A major highlight of her degree was her volunteer work with Ada’s Team—a student group that promotes diversity in computing science, games and technology. After obtaining her Computing Science degree, she continued to work for the university to help develop and write the Software Design & Architecture MOOC. After that, she joined a local AI startup as a software developer before relocating to Philadelphia to join KickUp.