Noah Davis
Technical Consultant at Qlty Software
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNoah Davis is a technical consultant and entrepreneur with 17 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams, developer tools, and mission-critical web applications from Seattle. As a Co-Founder of Code Climate he drove product and customer success for quality and delivery analytics, helping customers adopt automated vulnerability detection and metrics that improved retention and revenue. He’s hands-on across the stack—authoring backend fixes and benchmarks for tooling like Oink and contributing security and reporting improvements to the well-known Brakeman static analysis project—while also designing high-throughput custom apps that replaced entire offshore teams and enabled millions in B2B sales. Comfortable leading small remote teams or operating solo, he blends product-minded engineering with practical automation and a knack for “solve once” solutions that scale support. Trained in both English and Computer Science at Columbia, he pairs clear communication with technical depth to translate complex requirements into pragmatic systems.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Milton AcademyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) English and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English and Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
static-analysis10
selenium10
testing10
rspec10
test-framework10
rails10
selenium-ide10
security10
ruby10
webr10
log-parser10
parse10
test-automation10
benchmarking9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
noahd1/oink
Feb 2009 - Jun 2017
Log parser to identify actions which significantly increase VM heap size
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Noah primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Oink log parser. They introduced new output formats, such as "short_summary", and refined the existing "summary" format. The contributions also include the addition of benchmark tests to evaluate performance and implementing a fix for incomplete log states. Furthermore, they improved the codebase with file reorganization and path corrections.
loggingheap-sizelog-parserparserheap
brynary/webrat
Apr 2009 - Apr 2010
Webrat - Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Noah primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure and functionality of the Webrat library. They fixed a bug related to select fields with duplicate options, enhanced whitespace handling in content matching, and modified the save_and_open_page functionality. Furthermore, the user added new configuration options for selenium including selenium_firefox_profile and selenium_verbose_output, showing a focus on improving automation testing capabilities. Their commits also involved modifying testing files and the selenium integration, demonstrating an understanding of test automation principles.
acceptance-testingweb-applicationssinatratestingruby
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