Bobbi Towers is a software engineer based in Portland with nine years of experience building full-stack web apps and developer-facing learning tools, blending Python/Django, JavaScript/React, and a strong preference for Clojure. As Lead Clojure Maintainer at Exercism she designed a 76-exercise curriculum, implemented GitHub Actions for regression/integration testing, and contributed to code analysis tools that normalize and lint student solutions. Her portfolio spans accessible music software and educational playgrounds—from a Clojurescript sample-based music editor to interactive math coding exercises—and she maintains a decade-long YouTube channel for programming tutorials. Comfortable shipping production features and developer tooling, she also brings practical freelance and startup experience in multilingual, data-driven applications.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Jewish Philosophy and Law, Jewish Philosophy and Law at Yeshiva Temimei Darech
Math, Psychology, Music Theory, Math, Psychology, Music Theory at Austin Community College
Contributions:111 reviews, 103 commits, 241 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Bobbi contributed to the Exercism Clojure repository by adding and updating concept exercises, including "squeaky-clean", "booleans", "basics", "strings", "numbers", "hashmaps", "vectors", "floating-point-numbers", and "elyses-destructured-enchantments". These updates involved creating new exercises, writing and refactoring tests, and modifying existing code to align with the new specifications. The contributions also included refactoring code, cleaning up cache files and correcting the test and source file names.
The work-in-progress project for developing v3 tracks
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 34 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Bobbi primarily contributed to the Clojure exercises within the exercism/v3 repository, focusing on implementing and revising concept exercises. Their work involved adding new exercises, modifying existing ones, and fixing various issues. They also demonstrated proficiency in testing and code formatting using tools like Prettier.
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