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# Resume

Diana Thayer <garbados@gmail.com> (https://github.com/garbados)

Python and JavaScript developer with a background in web application development
(back- and front-end) and a history of contributing to open source, currently
seeking full-time employment as a software developer.

## Skills Overview

- Languages: Python, Node.js / Javascript, Ruby, Go
- Web Server Frameworks: Flask, Django, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, ExpressJS
- Web Client Frameworks: jQuery, Backbone, Angular
- Markup Languages: HTML, Markdown, Handlebars, Mustache, Jade, ERB
- Stylesheet Languages: CSS, LESS, SASS
- Databases: CouchDB, PouchDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
- Version Control: Git, SVN, Mercurial

## Abridged Work History

### Yocto Intern with Outreachy at Software Conservancy Foundation (2017)

- Develop Yocto's Layer Index, a package manager of sorts for openembedded layers.
- Document QA practices and development procedures for bitbake's test suite.
- File bug reports regarding security, testing, documentation, and onboarding.
- Compose blog posts about Yocto's technology and the internship itself.

### Django Developer at Cinder Staffing (2015)

- Integrate with the client's engineering team and contribute to their sprints.
- Develop and maintain client's user-facing site using Django and jQuery.

### Developer Advocate at Orchestrate (2014 - 2015)

- Compose blog posts, tutorials, documentation, and best practices around using
  the Orchestrate database service.
- Develop client libraries, example applications, and other tools to support
  users in Python, Node.js, Ruby, Java, and Go.
- Assist users directly in architecting application schema, implementing best
  practices, and troubleshooting issues.

### Developer Advocate at Cloudant (2013 - 2014)

- Compose blog posts, tutorials, documentation, and best practices around using
  the Orchestrate database service.
- Develop client libraries, example applications, and other tools to support
  users in Python and Node.js.
- Assist users directly in architecting application schema, implementing best
  practices, and troubleshooting issues.

### Django Developer at Matchbox (2011 - 2012)

- Develop and maintain company's client-facing website using Django and jQuery.

## Abridged Community History

### Community Committee Chair, Hypatia Software Organization (2017)

- Develop and maintain organization documentation of norms and procedures.
- Welcome and direct new members to resources like cash assistance, peer
  support, and laptop distribution.

### Contributor, Yocto (2017)

- Squash Python and documentation bugs.

### Contributor, Mastodon (2017)

- Fix misleading documentation.

### Technical contributor, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft (2016 - 2017)

- Develop a web interface for exploring the survey database.
- Developed utilities to convert the database from Access 97 to CSV, and to
  export it to CouchDB.