Colleen Fallaw
Research Programmer For The Research Data Service
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolColleen Fallaw is a research programmer with 12 years of experience designing and implementing campus-wide data repository systems at the University of Illinois, blending library science expertise with practical software engineering. She led development of an in-house Ruby on Rails publishing platform integrated with a preservation system (Medusa), applied agile practices, and contributed peer-reviewed practice papers on repository development. Comfortable spanning back-end, metadata, and preservation concerns, she has a track record of translating stakeholder needs into user-friendly, maintainable systems and documentation. Notably, her background in both computer science and library/information science gives her a rare ability to bridge technical architecture and scholarly data stewardship.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
bank10
rails-app8
zip7
ruby-on-rails6
amazon-s36
libarchive6
multithreading6
python6
data-wrangling5
rails5
amqp4
docker4
stable4
sql4
nginx4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
medusa-project/medusa-collection-registry
Aug 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:439 commits, 20 PRs, 704 pushes in 3 years 5 months
medusa-project/databank-bin-scripts
Feb 2019 - Dec 2023
Contributions:33 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 10 months
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