Noah Beard
Process Data Orchestration Platform Engineer
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNoah Beard is a Process Data Orchestration Platform Engineer with nine years of software engineering experience, blending cloud-native back-end work at AWS with game-engine systems development in the Godot community. He built and maintained features across multiple AWS IoT SDKs and CRT libraries, modernized CI/CD pipelines, and contributed meaningful SDK shadow handling improvements in Python. Parallel to his cloud work, he authored a 2D/3D inverse kinematics system for Godot (a widely used open-source game engine), fixed complex IK bugs, and ported demo projects while producing tutorials and docs. Comfortable leading remote and cross-time-zone teams, he also grew and managed a community forum to 10k+ users, demonstrating both technical depth and community stewardship. Noah’s rare combination of low-level C/C++ runtime work, multi-language SDK bindings, and hands-on game-dev tooling makes him effective at solving systems problems that span runtime, tooling, and end-user documentation.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Undergraduate, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Undergraduate at Thomas Edison State University
Github Skills (39)
json10
godot10
c-language10
learn-ruby-on-rails10
game-engine10
python10
animation10
game-dev10
scene-manager10
mqtt10
user-manual10
open-source10
c1110
ui-design10
basics10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-python-v2
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Next generation AWS IoT Client SDK for Python using the AWS Common Runtime
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 32 reviews, 40 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Noah focused on enhancing the AWS IoT Python SDK, specifically addressing shadow functionalities. Their work included rebuilding shadow bindings, adjusting samples to accommodate model generator adjustments, and improving the handling of null values within shadow states. The changes modified the shadow state representation and to_payload methods, improving the SDK's ability to handle cleared data effectively. They also refactored command-line argument parsing and updated the SDK to use the latest CRT.
next-generationpythonaws-iotruntimesdk
godotengine/godot-demo-projects
Aug 2017 - Jul 2020
Demonstration and Template Projects
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 18 PRs, 90 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Noah primarily focused on porting existing demo projects to Godot 3.0 and later versions, indicating a focus on code adaptation and modernization. Their contributions included updating UI components, fixing bugs related to user input, and modifying particle systems and scene structures. They also introduced new UI features and demo scenes, which suggest a combination of front-end and potential back-end/scene graph interaction development within the Godot engine.
templategodot3godot
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