Maribeth Bottorff is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web applications at Google from Sunnyvale, CA, with a strong front-end focus in JavaScript/HTML/CSS and backend experience in Java. She contributes to prominent open-source projects like Google Blockly, improving UX and editor functionality (e.g., context menus, custom tooltips, and playground tooling), demonstrating attention to polish and developer ergonomics. Her background includes building resilient backend services using CRDTs and NoSQL during an internship, and she brings practical knowledge of migrating legacy systems and integrating with internal APIs. A high-achieving Computer Science graduate (3.96 GPA) who has taught UNIX/Linux labs, she combines rigorous engineering discipline with an interest in how real users and teams interact with software.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Chemistry minor, 3.96 / 4.00, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Chemistry minor, 3.96 / 4.00 at University of South Carolina-Columbia
Plugins, codelabs, and examples related to the Blockly library.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:395 reviews, 161 commits, 421 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Maribeth primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of the Blockly samples, implementing new features and improving existing ones. They added a collapse/expand button to the advanced playground, and integrated a continuous-toolbox plugin. They also updated the disable context menu to properly disable orphan blocks. The user worked with Javascript and its relevant technologies.
Contributions:13 releases, 681 reviews, 115 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Maribeth primarily contributed to the development of the Blockly visual programming editor. They made changes to the core block and block SVG files to modify how inputs are removed. Additionally, the user added tests to procedures and context menu items, and made modifications to the context menu to register and manage options, including the ability to add a custom tooltip function.
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