Arty Starr
Founder at NFJS - NoFluffJustStuff
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolArty Starr is a founder and Flow Experience researcher with 10+ years building developer-focused tools and communities, currently leading FlowInsight and author of Idea Flow. Her PhD work at the University of Victoria develops a theory of momentum in software development while she builds the FLOWS IDE console to measure and reduce friction so engineers spend more time in flow. A seasoned practitioner and speaker at NFJS, she blends hands-on systems and metrics experience from roles at New Iron, AMD, and Hoovers with startup founding and community leadership. Beyond software, Arty is a 2D/3D animator and AR app builder, bringing a creative, human-centered lens to developer tooling. She’s known for turning empirical metrics into practical interventions that improve team joy and predictability, a thread running from technical interview design to automated deployment and testing.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of VictoriaB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Oregon State University
Github Skills (24)
gulp10
uglify10
hyper8
mob-programming8
nft-generator8
quake8
nodejs8
slide8
console7
peer-to-peer7
javascript7
animated7
nft7
development-environment7
robot7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openmastery/tools
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 12 comments in 8 months
twilightcity-net/flow-insight
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
Smart stats for your workflow, collaborative data-driven learning software
Contributions:1 PR, 331 pushes, 14 tags in 3 years 5 months
data-drivendata-sciencemachine-learningstatsdata-visualization
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