Emily Barnard
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Code for America
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Barnard is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer based in Brooklyn with six years of experience building civic-tech platforms that increase access to government benefits. At Code for America she has led work on GetYourRefund and previously on GetCalFresh, shipping Ruby on Rails applications tied to AWS, Terraform, and monitoring/ops tools for high-impact public-facing services. She blends front-end interactive data-visualization and back-end systems work, having built educational visualizations, mobile platforms, and data-collection simulations for nonprofits, research projects, and enterprise teams. Comfortable across the stack, Emily brings practical product focus to privacy-sensitive, policy-driven products and has experience operationalizing apps in Aptible and Datadog. Her background in Chinese language study and international programs hints at a curiosity for cross-cultural collaboration that complements her civic mission.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UNC-CH Honors in Cape Town Program, UNC-CH Honors in Cape Town Program at University of Cape TownMandarin Chinese, Mandarin Chinese at National Taiwan Normal UniversityAsheville High SchoolBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
rails-gem9
styles9
ruby-on-rails7
javascript6
rails6
ruby6
css1
responsive-design1
nav1
bootstrap1
mobile-first1
parallax1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
phxbrigade/rights-restoration-az
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
codeforamerica/benefits-app-foundational-project
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 17 comments in 1 day
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