Becky Gilbert
Software Engineer at Freelance
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBecky Gilbert is a software engineer with 11 years of experience combining experimental psychology and front-end development to build reliable tools for online behavioral research. Currently at MIT she develops Children Helping Science (formerly Lookit), and she’s a key contributor to the widely used jsPsych library—fixing video response data handling and improving UX in core plugins. Her background as a postdoc and investigator scientist at UCL and Cambridge gives her deep domain knowledge of experimental design and data integrity that informs her engineering decisions. Based in Seattle, she blends academic rigor with pragmatic JavaScript craftsmanship, frequently funded through grants and freelance partnerships to support open science.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Experimental Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Experimental Psychology at University of YorkInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Robbinsdale Cooper High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at University of Minnesota-Morris
English, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
front-end-development10
javascript10
css7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jspsych/jsPsych
Aug 2019 - Oct 2022
Create behavioral experiments in a browser using JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 66 reviews, 561 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Becky made several bug fixes related to the `video-*` plugins, specifically addressing data storage issues within the plugins for video response trials, likely ensuring that the correct data is being saved for experiments utilizing video. They also made changes to formatting across multiple files, fixing typos, and switching between autofocus to autocomplete to improve the user experience within the library. Finally, they made changes to the slider-response plugins and example files.
jspsychsciencebrowsersbmlpsychology
jspsych/moving-research-online-workshop
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes in 12 days
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