Amy Paris is a Product Manager and Bureaucracy Hacker with the U.S. Digital Service at the Department of Health and Human Services. In this role she is responsible for leading the SMEQA hiring strategy within CMS as well as contributing to digital systems interoperability and public access to health data. Amy has worked with CMS since May 2020, and is passionate about improving how the government recruits and hires skilled technologists. She recently also served as project lead for the USDS equity in government forms discovery sprint.
Prior to CMS, Amy served as Policy Architect at a consulting firm supporting the Office of the Federal CIO and the Federal CIO Council on issues including open source software policy, data center modernization, and cloud migration. She has previously served as a policy and communications consultant in two presidential administrations and has been an instructor at a number of colleges and universities. She received her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island and master’s degree in International Science and Technology Policy from The George Washington University.