Nicole Neubarth
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicole Neubarth is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience who transitioned from a PhD in neurobiology to building production software that makes people's lives safer and easier. She brings deep analytical rigor from academic research—designing models and custom analysis tools in Python and MATLAB—to full-stack engineering work in TypeScript, React, Java, and modern CI systems. At Shopify she progressed from Senior to Staff Engineer, and previously built graph-import pipelines and Neo4j-backed tools for connectome data at Janelia. Nicole excels at turning complex scientific problems into maintainable, testable systems and has delivered both backend services and user-facing React applications. Based in Virginia, she combines mentorship experience from academia with hands-on engineering leadership and a knack for finding elegant, data-driven solutions to messy real-world problems. An understated strength is her ability to bridge domains: she understands both the mathematics of models and the operational needs of scalable production software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neurobiology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neurobiology at Harvard UniversityBachelor's Degree with Honors, Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Bachelor's Degree with Honors, Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience at University of Chicago
Github Skills (18)
design-tokens10
shopify10
vscode-extension10
neo4j10
figma-plugin10
component-library10
react10
java9
typescript9
rest4
rest-api4
javascript3
json3
react-component2
debug2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
connectome-neuprint/neuPrint
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
tools for importing connectome data into neo4j
Contributions:3 releases, 809 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
javaconnectomeimportingneo4j
nneubarth/topomap
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 24 pushes in 3 months
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