Noah Betzen
Senior Software Engineer at SmartRent
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNoah Betzen is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and IoT services, currently driving Core IoT at SmartRent where his team manages over three million devices in production using Elixir, MQTT, and Z-Wave. He has a strong track record shipping scalable SaaS features and integrations across languages and stacks—Java, Go, Python, Dart, React, and Elixir—at companies like Workiva and InCharge Energy. Comfortable both leading feature work and tackling low-level systems, Noah has built enterprise integrations, migrated legacy systems, and supported real-time video and streaming backends. He contributes to open-source projects focused on developer UX, having improved front-end presentation components for the Marp Markdown ecosystem. Based in Seattle, he combines startup agility (founder of Borealis Technica) with large-product delivery experience and a background teaching web development to students. He’s pragmatic, polyglot, and moving personal projects to Codeberg, signaling a preference for distributed, developer-friendly tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Alaska FairbanksNorwegian Language and Social Studies, Norwegian Language and Social Studies at Narvik University College (HiN)Unalaska Jr/Sr High School
English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
markdown10
website-development10
markdown-it10
react10
javascript9
presentationml8
presentation-layer8
presenter8
slide7
ui-design7
decks7
data-flow-diagram6
aspose6
css6
python6
Programming languages (44)
Github contributions (5)
marp-team/marp
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
The entrance repository of Markdown presentation ecosystem
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Noah primarily focused on updating the website's components, specifically those related to the top section, including the hero, description, features, and get-started sections. Their work involved modifying text content, refining UI elements, and ensuring the proper display of components within the Markdown presentation ecosystem. The changes included improvements to the layout, wording, and links within these key website pages, indicating a focus on the user experience and the presentation of the Marp project.
keynotepresentationdeckmarpecosystem
Nezteb/I_Hate_WordPress
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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