Beth Hadley is a senior application developer with 14+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering mission-critical software for government and public-sector clients. She combines a strong analytical mindset and organizational-change training with practical engineering skills to drive measurable cost savings and efficiency gains—examples include a reverse-auction purchasing app that saved ~$100K in year one and a FOIA digitization system that boosted throughput by over 15%. Skilled in full lifecycle development, integrations and upgrades, she routinely coordinates multi-vendor projects and sustains long-term product adoption across agencies. Beth contributes to open-source, improving the music21 computational musicology toolkit through bug fixes and functional enhancements, demonstrating attention to code quality beyond her day job. Based in Michigan, she pairs deep legacy systems experience (OnBase/CourtView, fee/payment services) with a penchant for eliminating bottlenecks and standardizing best practices. Her background in organizational change leadership underpins a pragmatic approach to stakeholder engagement and scalable solution design.
music21: a Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musical Analysis and Computational Musicology
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:118 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Beth primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the `music21` toolkit, a computational musicology library. Their contributions involved correcting typos and errors in modules like `musicxmltranslate` and `converter.py`, which are crucial for music parsing and data conversion. They also implemented enhancements such as allowing specific note properties to handle 'none' values and added a function to determine chord symbol from a chord, demonstrating involvement in improving code quality and functionality within the library. Additionally, the user added a demonstration script for a root and bass motion analysis tool.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 issue in 8 years 3 months
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