Courtney W
Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCourtney W is a transitioning software engineer with five years of hands-on experience and a background in nine years of customer relations and management, bringing strong empathy and proactive problem anticipation to development teams. Trained at Flatiron School and MLH Fellowship, she focuses on modern web stacks including React, Redux, Next.js and Rails, and has contributed backend work to the high-profile github/docs repository—adding GraphQL and REST API features for project and CLI workflows. Based in Cookeville, TN, she blends cross-industry communication skills with practical engineering chops, comfortable working independently or as a collaborative team member. Courtney approaches technical challenges with a logical, continuous-learning mindset and a positive, hardworking attitude.
5 years of coding experience
Tennessee Technological UniversityMLH FellowshipSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Github Skills (9)
graphql10
rest-api10
back-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
githubaction-workflow9
codeql9
project-management9
github-ci9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
github/docs
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
The open-source repo for docs.github.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 365 commits, 520 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Courtney primarily worked on back-end development tasks, contributing to the data/graphql schema, including features for auto-merging, and adding functionalities like project management. They made changes to the REST API, specifically adding and modifying the fields, creating, updating, and deleting items and projects with different options. The user also worked on the code and examples related to GitHub CLI.
works-with-codespaces
cmwilson21/headlines-up
Apr 2022 - Jul 2025
Frontend for Headlines Up - News source guessing game built with React, Redux, Tailwind, and an Express backend. Consuming datapoints from NewsAPI.
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 PRs, 86 pushes in 3 years 3 months
backendfrontendnewsapireactredux
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