Barbie
Author at CPAN
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBarbie is a seasoned software architect and open-source author with 22 years of experience transitioning from C and embedded systems to Perl-led web and backend platforms. She has led engineering teams and shaped cross-brand platform architecture at major hosting providers, blending hands-on development, QA automation and product-focused business analysis. A long-time CPAN contributor and founder/leader of Birmingham Perl Mongers, she pairs community-building and conference organisation with practical delivery of scalable systems. Notably, she refocused into architectural design in 2015, bringing an accessibility-aware and requirements-driven lens to system design. Based in England, she combines deep legacy systems knowledge with modern platform leadership and a knack for turning complex business processes into robust software.
22 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
HND Computer Science Computer Science, HND Computer Science Computer Science at Coventry UniversityO Level Maths Physics Chemistry, O Level Maths Physics Chemistry at Crewe County Grammar School
English
Github Skills (46)
siemens10
jam10
sarif10
external10
irc-bot9
cpan9
perl9
barrage9
metadata9
statistics9
code-generation9
dtd8
sasl8
testing8
python7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
barbie/bot-basicbot-pluggable-module-crontab
Apr 2015 - Aug 2019
Provides a crontab-like message service for IRC channels
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 4 years 4 months
irc-botsaslchannelscrontabmessage
barbie/cpan-testers-www-reports
Feb 2012 - Aug 2019
CPAN Testers Reports site codebase
Contributions:142 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 7 years 7 months
reportstestingtesterscodebasecpan
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