Lanya Butler
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Freelance
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLanya Butler is a Senior Full Stack Engineer in the Boston area with 11 years of experience building accessible, user-focused web applications. At 3Play Media she has progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Full Stack Engineer, shipping end-to-end features that balance design, a11y, and robust back-end architecture. Her open-source contributions include back-end work on the Ruby for Good Human Essentials project, where she refactored address modeling and expanded test coverage for inventory and reporting features. With an interdisciplinary computing and art background, she brings a designer’s eye to UI/UX problems and a pragmatic engineering approach to maintainability. Outside of coding she has a history in photography and language tutoring, revealing a habit of translating visual and human-centered thinking into software solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Interdisciplinary Computing: Art, 3.5, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Interdisciplinary Computing: Art, 3.5 at Colby CollegeHigh School, High School at National Cathedral School
Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
activerecord10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
postgresql10
ruby-on-rails10
database-design9
open-source9
nom8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/human-essentials
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Human Essentials is an inventory management system for diaper, incontinence, and period-supply banks. It supports them in distributing to partners, tracking inventory, and reporting stats and analytics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Lanya primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Human Essentials project. Their work focused on refactoring the organization address, updating views to utilize address fields, and modifying test coverage to include these changes. The user implemented address fields into the organization model and modified database schema, as well as incorporating the use of a category drop-down menu for items. They also updated tests to reflect address updates and expanded test coverage to handle super user redirects.
inventorymanagement-systemstatisticsinventory-management-systemflows
chiefkikio/AFutureDate
Apr 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:55 PRs, 40 pushes, 35 branches in 4 years 4 months
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