Liz Burton
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLiz Burton is a full-stack web developer and curriculum leader with 11 years of experience blending software engineering, user experience research, and education. She led front-end curriculum development at Flatiron School—rewriting lessons, automating grading/tooling, and maintaining Canvas deployments—while contributing to both front- and back-end Rails and JavaScript projects on GitHub. Her background in UX research and advanced training in human factors informs pragmatic, learner-centered course design and product decisions. Prior roles in psychometrics and educational research give her a strong quantitative foundation for measuring learning outcomes and improving instructional effectiveness. Based in Boston, she thrives at the intersection of code, pedagogy, and research, making technical content more accessible and reliably scaffolded for diverse learners.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Flatiron SchoolM.S., Human Factors in Information Design, M.S., Human Factors in Information Design at Bentley UniversityMinneapolis College of Art and DesignPh.D., Educational Research and Evaluation Methods, Ph.D., Educational Research and Evaluation Methods at University of Colorado at Boulder
English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
database-migrations10
activerecord10
api-rest10
rest-api10
javascript10
rails10
database-migration10
sql10
restful-api10
ruby-on-rails10
api-design10
html9
rspec9
testing8
chai8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
learn-co-curriculum/phase-0-javascript-events-acting-on-events-lab
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 review, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 11 months
learn-co-curriculum/react-hooks-phase-2-project
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 7 months
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