Nicole Arruda
Senior Software Artisan At The Forge Network at Accenture
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicole Arruda is a Senior Software Artisan with a decade of experience building maintainable, user-centered software and leading teams through pair programming and test-driven development. Based in Ann Arbor, she blends strong object-oriented design and creative architecture problem-solving with a background in teaching and consulting at organizations like Menlo Innovations and Accenture’s Forge Network. Nicole is passionate about mentoring and widening participation of girls and women in computer science, and she brings a storyteller’s sensibility—writing plays and music—to craft clearer product narratives and documentation. Outside of work she channels creativity into cooking, homebrewing, and an enduring Dungeons & Dragons obsession, which informs her collaborative, imaginative approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Spanish, English, Business Admin, BA, Spanish, English, Business Admin at University of VermontUniversidad de AlcaláMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Eastern Michigan University
Spanish
Github Skills (17)
elixir9
data-processing9
refactoring9
data-visualization8
programming-language7
data-analytics7
microservices6
helm5
kubernetes5
testing4
data-structure4
data-platform2
docker2
data-structures2
datasets1
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
narruda789/people-collector-poc
Mar 2025 - Mar 2026
A text-based proof of concept for a game about fostering relationships within your questing party!
Contributions:11 releases, 41 PRs, 115 pushes in 11 months
BlueShoelaces/peter_rabbit
Apr 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 7 months
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