Maureen Z
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolMaureen Z is an independent software consultant and full-stack engineer with nearly a decade of experience building production systems for startups, mission-driven organizations, and open-source platforms. She specializes in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and cloud/serverless architectures, and has led upgrades and migrations that improved stability and maintainability for projects like Spoke and MoveOn’s texting platform. Comfortable across the stack, she pairs product- and design-focused collaboration with practical engineering—refactoring for mobile performance, adding multilingual support, and modernizing infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, she’s enhanced Best Practical’s widely used Request Tracker by improving backend features, admin UX, and configurable preferences. Her background in lab research and dual degrees in Chemistry and French hint at a methodical, curious approach to problem solving and a taste for building things from scratch. Based in Greater Boston, she helps teams ship high-impact, user-focused software while mentoring contributors in open-source communities.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degrees, Chemistry, French (double major), Bachelor's degrees, Chemistry, French (double major) at University of Rhode IslandAI Engineering Fellowship, AI Engineering Fellowship at Resilient Coders
Arabic, French, Haitian Creole, English
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Github Skills (4)
perl10
back-end-development10
user-interface9
database-design9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bestpractical/rt
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Request Tracker, an enterprise-grade issue tracking system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Maureen primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Request Tracker system. They implemented features such as restricting the merging of non-ticket objects based on ticket type and adding options for restoring default search preferences. The user also improved error messages in the custom field admin UI and refined messages related to custom role application and removal from queues. Furthermore, they worked on adding configuration options to self-service user preferences.
helpdesk-ticketingtrackerenterprise-gradegradeperl
mau11/shortly-app
Dec 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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