Iris H is a result-driven full stack software engineer with 11 years of experience, trained at Kenzie Academy and fluent in Python, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS3, and Rust. She combines strong problem-solving instincts with creative, pragmatic engineering—evidenced by open-source backend contributions to the Twilight Rust Discord API ecosystem, where she enhanced audit-log events, presence retrieval, and caching while improving code quality with Clippy fixes. Based in Greater Indianapolis, she has hands-on experience mentoring and assessing junior developers as a former student coach, which sharpens her communication and code-review skills. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, she enjoys tackling systems that demand both technical rigor and user-focused solutions. A hobbyist contributor with a knack for backend systems, she brings disciplined craftsmanship and a collaborative mindset to engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Kenzie Academy
Powerful, flexible, and scalable ecosystem of Rust libraries for the Discord API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:54 commits, 54 PRs, 36 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Iris primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Twilight Discord API library written in Rust. They focused on expanding the audit log functionality by adding new events and including the `message_id` in the entry info. Furthermore, the user added support for retrieving presence information within the GetGuildMembers request and implemented caching updates for various events. They also made several improvements related to Rust's clippy linter, enhancing code quality.
Contributions:2 releases, 142 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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