Cara Salter
Production Engineer at Jump Trading
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolCara Salter is a production engineer and WPI computer science undergraduate with 11 years of hands-on experience in networking, systems, and production operations across academic and industry settings. She blends homelab curiosity—self-hosted WireGuard nodes and small multiplayer games in C, Go, and Rust—with production-grade tooling learned at Jump Trading and via NetOps work at WPI, where she rebuilt Puppet repositories and integrated network services. Comfortable across full-stack web apps in JavaScript, Rust, and Python, she also contributes backend improvements to hobby projects like a Java text-adventure, showing attention to data modeling and extensible design. A pragmatic mentor and infrastructure lead, she has built offline intranets for cross-continent hackathons and trained teams in Linux, Git, and deployment practices. Based in Greater Boston, she pairs low-level networking chops with a developer-first approach to reliable, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (14)
file-handling10
javas10
json10
game-development10
java10
serialization9
spring-boot9
data-serialization9
windows6
html6
doctype6
apache6
jquery6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Progether/JAdventure
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Java text adventure game.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 29 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Cara primarily focused on enhancing the back-end functionality of the Java text adventure game. They refactored code to use new JSON files for data, updated NPCs, and added functionality to incorporate player XP and gold. They also introduced an EncounteredNpcRepository to handle specific NPC profiles and started an implementation to add encountered NPCs. Additionally, the user implemented a packaging command and made modifications to menus to better handle profile loading and deletion.
gamerpgtext-adventure-gameadventure-gamejava
hackagotchi/hackagotchio
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
The website & blog of Hackagotchi!
Contributions:31 commits, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 8 months
blog-websitejekyll
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