Cora Johnson-roberson
Software Engineer at Google
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCora Johnson-roberson is a software engineer with 14 years’ experience based in Greater Boston, currently building products at Google with a background spanning education technology and creative coding. Her work bridges machine learning, data visualization/sonification, and front-end engineering—skills honed through roles at Khan Academy and contributions to digital humanities and music-technology projects. She is an active open-source contributor, notably improving data-clustering export and UX in the widely used OpenRefine project. Cora’s academic path combines humanities and technical depth (BA in History & Literature and Music; MA in Ethnomusicology and Computer Science), which informs her interdisciplinary approach to tooling and interaction design. She brings a musician’s sensitivity to pattern and timing to complex engineering problems, often favoring elegant user-facing solutions.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at City Honors SchoolMA, Ethnomusicology, MA, Ethnomusicology at Brown UniversityBA, History and Literature and Music, BA, History and Literature and Music at Harvard University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
json10
javascript10
data-analysis9
data-cleaning9
data-wrangling9
javas8
html8
java8
front-end-development8
data-science7
rdd6
apache-spark6
collaborative-filtering6
scala6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
OpenRefine/OpenRefine
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
OpenRefine is a free, open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Cora primarily contributed to the OpenRefine project by enhancing the clustering dialog functionality. Their work included adding an "export clusters" button, integrating project and column name, a timestamp, and cluster method/function into the exported JSON file. They also made minor formatting adjustments and added a workaround for the export cluster link on Firefox. These changes focused on improving the user experience and data export capabilities of the OpenRefine tool.
pythonopenrefinemessy-datareconciliationdatacleaning
corajr/dayone-convert
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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