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Amanda Graham

Software Developer and Technologist · verified 2026-09-04

Amanda Graham is a software developer and technologist whose career spans consulting, enterprise architecture, and workforce development. She’s worked as a consultant at Pariveda Solutions on big data, IoT, and functional programming projects, with earlier roles including Enterprise Architect at Measured Progress and time at Neo Technology working with the graph database Neo4j, following several years in consulting. She’s also known for cofounding Mined Minds Foundation, an organization that develops tech hubs in areas affected by the decline of the coal and gas industries, providing free software development training to unemployed and underemployed workers, as well as GPdL, a software consultancy staffed by technologists trained through Mined Minds. Her work has been profiled by CNN, PBS, CBC, and Smart Business, among other outlets.

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