Summary
Claire Watson is a fullstack software engineer based in New York with nine years of professional experience and a strong focus on JavaScript, React/Redux, and Node.js. After studying neuroscience and film at Oberlin and working as an events producer, she translated her interdisciplinary curiosity into software through Grace Hopper’s intensive, bringing a designer’s sensibility to engineering problems. At Attentive she progressed from frontend client engineer to software engineer, shipping production-grade features that bridge complex client needs and scalable backend services. Claire is comfortable across the stack—Postgres, Express, Sequelize and real-time tools like Socket.io—and cares about elegant, well-designed solutions informed by both analytic rigor and creative thinking. An early Codecademy convert, she combines event-production discipline with technical craft to deliver polished user experiences under tight timelines.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at The Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience + Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience + Film/Cinema/Video Studies at Oberlin College