Julie Swoope
Staff Engineer at State of Maryland
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulie Swoope is a Staff Engineer based in New York with 13 years of software engineering experience across C++, Ruby, Python, Java, Android and multiple web frameworks. She has a track record of shipping product-focused features at companies from Kickstarter and Mailchimp to Coherence and now the State of Maryland, blending backend systems and mobile UI work. At Kickstarter she contributed notable Android refactors and unit-tested view models for a high-profile open-source app, showing attention to both testability and user-facing polish. Julie moves comfortably between languages and layers—having implemented SQL-backed services, Rails apps, and Android components—making her a versatile problem solver on cross-functional teams. Her academic background in Spanish hints at strong communication skills and a propensity to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders. Colleagues rely on her pragmatic approach to refactors and her ability to modernize legacy code while preserving product momentum.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Spanish, Bachelor of Arts Spanish at Reed College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
junit10
kotlin-android10
android10
jtest10
rxjavafx9
rxjava9
android-development8
functional-reactive-programming7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kickstarter/android-oss
May 2017 - Dec 2017
Kickstarter for Android. Bring new ideas to life, anywhere.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 32 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Julie primarily focused on refactoring and updating project card components within the Android app, including the view model and view holder. This involved adding comprehensive unit tests for the view model, incorporating project completion status checks, and implementing various UI style updates. The contributions also touched upon the estimated delivery section within the view pledge view.
androidandroid-developmentfunctional-programmingrxjavafunctional-reactive-programming
swoopej/swoopej.github.com
Mar 2015 - Apr 2021
personal website
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
reactnextjstypescript
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