About Me

Mara Jade

Just a nerd doing her thing

My Skills

My Projects

maraJade.github.io

The repo for this site!

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JustNoBot

The subscription bot for the JustNoNetwork of subreddits

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My Career

Aspiration, Inc.

Created product and engineering documentation in Confluence for the formerly undocumented customer service system, including screenshots, flow diagrams, database interaction, and infrastructure dependencies. Optimized Golang code by abstracting common functionality and vendor API code into separately maintained packages, eliminating an entire category of bugs. Streamlined tests by removing fragile and duplicate code across several repositories in favor of a standardized, concurrent model, dramatically improving CI/CD processing time. Led the development effort to standardize audit trail generation across several Golang repositories, augmenting the granularity of tracked changes and integrating GeoIP data. Proposed and assisted with the implementation of standardized documentation as part of the development workflow, significantly improving the ongoing validity of the product and engineering documentation. Participated in the design of the automated account closure subsystem; led the vendor integration of Galileo. Became the subject matter expert for Golang API integrations including Galileo, Maxmind, and AWS S3. Lead team meetings including daily standups and biweekly sprint grooming and planning sessions. Provided code reviews and feedback for internal teams and offshore contracting teams

Jan. 2022
Software Engineer - Backend

IEQ Technology, Inc.

Designed and developed webapps in PHP. Increased maintainability of websites by migrating and updating PHP. Designed and implemented themes for WordPress sites.

Dec. 2016
Web Devloper

OSU Open Source Lab

Met with clients to determine requirements for various APIs. Designed and implemented APIs in Django and NodeJS. Designed and developed webapps in Flask to utilize created APIs. Designed and developed plugins for Github and Fenestra in Ruby.

May 2014
Student Developer

OSU Central Web Services

Met with and assisted clients with determining themes for websites. Designed and implemented themes for websites using Drupal. Designed and developed modules for Drupal website administration.

Mar. 2012
Student Developer

Volunteering

Lucky Paws Rescue

Helped to care for animals evacuated during the fall firestorms

Sept. 2020
Volunteer

Forum Bot Maintainer

Refactored code to improve efficiency and readability. Continue to update and improve subscription bot for large forums. Migrated database from single table to relational table setup. Migrated database from sqlite to postgresql. Created Docker containers for bot and database for ease of development, testing, and deployment. Moved bot and database to AWS ECS instances for hosting

2019
Volunteer

Forum Moderator

Developed subscription bot for forums of over 100,000 users. Updated and streamlined forum bot code for ease of use and readability. Updated, streamlined, and organized forum appearance and styling, increasing ease of use and readability

2018
Volunteer Technical Moderator

OSU Linux Users Group

Helped organize and run weekly meetings and events

2013
Webmaster