Anne Ogborn
CoFounder at SWI-Prolog
Elgin, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAnne Ogborn is a seasoned software engineer and serial founder with 15+ years of experience building interactive systems, databases, and virtual-world learning platforms from Elgin, Oregon. As CoFounder of The Elgin Works and Pathways Cooperative she blends hands-on engineering with creative product design, shipping e-learning and manufacturing-focused projects and even a laser-baked color business unit. A long-time contributor to SWI-Prolog and TerminusDB, she brings deep expertise in logic programming, knowledge representation, and backend/database engineering—having authored Prolog examples and contributed to WOQL compilation. Her work on social robotics (RoboKind) and virtual worlds (University of Houston, OpenCog) reflects a human-centered approach to computing and education. Curious and eclectic, Anne pairs legacy systems experience (Apple, EA, Informix) with explorations in Haskell and automated manufacturing, making her comfortable across decades of evolving tooling and paradigms.
15 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
English, Hindi, Urdu
Stackoverflow
2,162reputation
341kreached
53answers
7questions
prolog
top-5%
Github Skills (23)
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databases10
logic-programming10
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prolog10
backend10
database10
graph-database9
database-design9
open-source8
algorithms8
algorithm8
acid7
document-database7
collaboration7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Anniepoo/prolog-examples
Oct 2012 - Feb 2020
Some simple examples for new Prolog programmers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Anne appears to be contributing to a Prolog project focused on problem-solving and knowledge representation. Their initial commit established the foundational code for a story generator, utilizing a backward-chaining planner and a simulator. Subsequent commits added and modified various Prolog examples demonstrating their proficiency in the language and its application in areas like story generation, puzzle-solving, and constraint programming. They demonstrated the ability to maintain and extend the repository with multiple projects.
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terminusdb/terminusdb
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
TerminusDB is a distributed database with a collaboration model
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:20 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
Contributions summary:Anne primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the TerminusDB project, focusing on its core database features. Their work included checking SWI-Prolog version compatibility, merging changes to the schema, and implementing WOQL query compilation and execution logic. They also added and modified database-related predicates and functions within the project's codebase. The user's contributions also included some minor modifications and additions to project documentation.
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