Accalia Robinson is a Materials Science Ph.D. and Process Engineer with 14 years of hands-on engineering experience spanning thin films, wafer vacuum processes, and aerospace-industry projects. Currently at Seagate Technology, she combines advanced microscopy expertise with practical process development—having operated sputter deposition and ion mill tools and built ion mill simulations in Python and MATLAB. Her background includes impactful internships where she used JMP for data analysis to solve particulate and deposition challenges, and she brings leadership experience from long-term involvement in engineering project teams since 2012. She also contributes to open-source back-end work, improving NodeBB forum functionality around redirects, web sockets, and image handling—an unusual crossover that sharpens her systems-thinking and debugging skills. Based in Minneapolis, she will be seeking R&D roles in materials science starting in 2024, offering a rare mix of academic rigor (4.0 PhD) and production-driven process engineering.
14 years of coding experience
High School, 3.801 Un-weighted GPA, High School, 3.801 Un-weighted GPA at Eastview High School
Bachelor’s Degree, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, 3.892 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, 3.892 GPA at University of Alabama
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science, 4.0 at The University of Alabama
Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Accalia primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the NodeBB forum software. Their commits focused on fixing bugs related to URL redirects and incorrect pathing, enhancing group management features through web sockets (e.g., allowing retrieval of group members), and addressing data validation issues. They also made improvements to the system's socket.io functionalities and image cropping capabilities.
Sockbot - A sock puppet Robot worthy of TheDailyWTF that interfaces with what.thedailywtf.com. SO META!
Contributions:52 releases, 1315 commits, 266 PRs in 4 years 1 month
so-metasockpuppetmetarobot
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Accalia Robinson - Process Engineer at Seagate Technology