Mariel Frank
Software Engineer at Codecademy
United States
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Top SchoolMariel Frank is a software engineer with nine years of experience blending hands-on engineering (Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, GraphQL, bash) with curriculum and product work at Codecademy. Her background in linguistics, education, and marketing informs a detail-oriented, user-focused approach to building developer-facing learning experiences and interactive code projects. She contributes to open-source learning repos—most notably helping implement game logic and object-oriented structure for Codecademy’s Learn C++ "UFO: The Game"—demonstrating full‑stack fluency and pedagogical clarity. Comfortable moving between code, documentation, and curriculum design, she excels at turning conceptual puzzles into well-structured, teachable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Flatiron SchoolB.A., B.A. at Barnard CollegeMaster's degree, Master's degree at Hunter College
Spanish, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
functionfs10
c-language10
cpp10
object-oriented-programming10
cprogramming-language10
classes9
game-development9
activerecord6
postgresql6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Codecademy/learn-cpp
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Codecademy | Learn C++
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mariel's commits demonstrate a focus on developing a C++ game, "UFO: The Game." Contributions include initial game setup, adding game functions, restructuring code for better organization, and incorporating classes and objects. The user implemented core game logic, user interaction, and designed basic game mechanics.
cppcodecademyc-plus-pluscpp17learn-c
marielfrank/codecademy-greeterbot
Jan 2019 - May 2019
The files for a RaspberryPi bot to greet people to the Codecademy office in the morning.
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 3 months
raspberry-pibotcodecademyraspberrypimorning
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