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        <h1><span class="hint" title="Type my name and see what happens">Amanda</span> Pinsker</h1>—Experience designer. I like to rethink things through experimentation, compassion, and a sense of&nbsp;humor.
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      <div>I've been a product designer at <a>GitHub</a> for a few years now. Right now, I’m focused on how you work with GitHub from your local machine. All of our work is <a href="http://github.com/desktop/desktop">open</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://github.com/cli/cli">source</a><span class="accent superscript" id="asterisk" onmouseover="addClass(asterisk2, 'footnote-accent');" onmouseout="removeClass(asterisk2, 'footnote-accent');">*</span>.</div>
      <div>Before all this, I spent some time at <a>Upstatement</a> and <a>Ronik</a>, led the crew at <a>Scout</a>, and graduated from&nbsp;<a>Northeastern</a><span class="accent superscript" id="dagger" onmouseover="addClass(dagger2, 'footnote-accent');" onmouseout="removeClass(dagger2, 'footnote-accent');">†</span>.</div>
      <div>I grew up in the ‘burbs of New York<span class="accent superscript" id="doubledagger" onmouseover="addClass(doubledagger2, 'footnote-accent');" onmouseout="removeClass(doubledagger2, 'footnote-accent');">‡</span>, make a lot of self deprecating jokes<span class="accent superscript" id="section" onmouseover="addClass(section2, 'footnote-accent');" onmouseout="removeClass(section2, 'footnote-accent');">§</span>, and I'm notorious for being average at a thousand hobbies—most recently <strike>guitar</strike> piano, <strike>mini</strike> Monday crossword puzzles, <strike>embroidery</strike> knitting, and hand&nbsp;lettering.<span class="accent superscript" id="paragraph" onmouseover="addClass(paragraph2, 'footnote-accent');" onmouseout="removeClass(paragraph2, 'footnote-accent');">¶</span></div>


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        <span class="accent">*</span><p class="note" id="asterisk2"><span>So is <a href="https://github.com/ampinsk/ampinsk.github.io">this</a>. And it was built by moi.</span></p>
        <span class="accent">†</span><p class="note" id="dagger2"><span>Here's my <a href="/pinsker-resume-2020.pdf">resume</a> if you need it.</span></p>
        <span class="accent">‡</span><p class="note" id="doubledagger2"><span>Long Island, specifically. At least it's not Jersey.</span></p>
        <span class="accent">§</span><p class="note" id="section2"><span>I don't get away with these as well as I'd like on the West Coast.</span></p>
        <span class="accent">¶</span><p class="note" id="paragraph2"><span>If you've learned about me and would still like to talk to me, you can do so in these places: <a href="http://twitter.com/ampinsk">Twitter</a>, <a href="mailto:apinsker4@gmail.com">Email</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandapinsker/">LinkedIn</a>.</span></p>
        <span class="accent optically-smaller">&#8599;&#xFE0E;</span><p class="note" id="external2"><span>This means I do not have a public case study yet  and I must send you somewhere else.</span></p>
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