Molly Howard
Software Engineer at Promise
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMolly Howard is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building web applications and APIs, currently at Promise after a long tenure at Square. She specializes in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript (including jQuery/AJAX), and has shipped production features across backend services and front-end integrations. Molly published the Ruby gem fauxster—demonstrating an interest in crafting reusable developer tools—and has practical experience with Sidekiq/Redis, mobile front-ends, and third-party APIs. Her background in classics and politics plus study abroad in organic chemistry gives her an unusual interdisciplinary perspective that she applies to clear problem framing and communication. Based in Washington, D.C., she pairs pragmatic engineering with a talent for turning language—coded, written, or spoken—into reliable product outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad Organic Chemistry, Study Abroad Organic Chemistry at University of St AndrewsBachelor of Arts Classics and Politics, Bachelor of Arts Classics and Politics at Washington and Lee UniversityHigh School, High School at Dominican Academy
English, Latin, German, Greek
Github Skills (21)
error-reporting7
error-handling6
vault5
debugging5
javascript4
npm4
monitoring4
mixins4
rails4
isomorphic4
package4
frontend4
rails-assets3
algorithms3
browser3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mhuerster/mhuerster.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2025
blogging away
Contributions:6 PRs, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 10 years 4 months
blogging
mhuerster/algorithms
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:43 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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