Catherine Noll
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Top SchoolCatherine Noll is a senior backend engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and platform architectures for high-scale products. She has driven backend reliability and developer experience at companies like Airbyte and Marco Polo, contributing to an open-source data integration platform and leading backend services for a video app with millions of users. Her stack centers on Python microservices, observability, and DevOps practices, with hands-on experience modernizing monoliths into cloud-native services. Catherine also contributes to tools that improve developer workflows—adding diff UI features and schema support to widely used projects—demonstrating a mix of production engineering and thoughtful UX for platform users. Before software she managed technical projects for government contracts, which informs her disciplined approach to QA, documentation, and cross-functional coordination. She combines deep systems know-how with mentoring and on-call leadership to deliver resilient, observable services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree Geology, Bachelor's degree Geology at Oberlin College
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Github Skills (26)
git10
difference10
data-pipelines10
python10
data-engineering10
command-line-interface10
pager10
command-line10
rust10
data-pipeline10
syntax-highlighting10
cli10
testing9
jinjava9
regex8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
airbytehq/airbyte
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:807 reviews, 27 commits, 372 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Catherine's commits primarily focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the Airbyte data integration platform. Their contributions included enhancing logging messages within the `SimpleRetriever` class and improving the connector builder's test panel by displaying the HTTP method used in requests. Further, they worked on enabling users of the low-code CDK to specify schemas within manifests and updating the source-gnews manifest to use inline stream schemas. The user also made several updates to the CDK library, including code type annotations.
operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse
dandavison/delta
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 23 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Catherine significantly contributed to the `delta` project by implementing and extending line number features within the diff output. This included adding options for custom formatting, styling, and display of line numbers, enhancing the visual presentation of diffs. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating theme selection and navigation, allowing users to cycle through different color themes for the diff output. The commits also included adding tests and other features for improved functionality.
deltasyntax-highlighterrustcolor-themesgrep
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