Julia Nething
Staff Software Engineer at Thorn
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJulia Nething is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across Python, JavaScript, and cloud platforms. She currently focuses on improving reliability and performance of large-scale classification services—reducing production memory usage by 61%—while streamlining developer experience through CI and release automation. A strong cross-functional collaborator, she pairs backend engineering with data science to debug production issues and scale ML-backed services. Julia is an active open-source contributor, notably improving testing and benchmarking infrastructure for the well-known TechEmpower FrameworkBenchmarks project. Her background includes internal platform work at Capital One, teaching and mentoring roles, and a CS master’s from Georgia Tech, reflecting both technical depth and a commitment to developer education.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack ReactorMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Peace, War and Defense, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Peace, War and Defense at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (26)
application-framework10
benchmark10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitor10
app-framework10
benchmarking10
performance-measurement10
performance-analysis10
maven10
performance-tuning10
web-framework10
performance-monitoring10
ant10
devops10
python9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 25 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Julia primarily contributed to the project's testing and benchmarking infrastructure. They added dependencies, modified build scripts, and adjusted test configurations, specifically related to setting up tools like Ant and Maven. They also made changes to the testing process, including the verification of URLs, the separation of verification and benchmark results into individual files and improved the automation and testing process. In addition, the user addressed the configuration of the nodejs environment and updated the nodejs version.
techempowerframeworkbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
cjnething/cjnething.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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