Noel Jorden
Staff Backend Engineer at Highwing
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNoel Jorden is a Staff Backend Engineer based in Boulder, Colorado with 18 years of experience building and scaling web platforms for startups and enterprise customers. He’s led engineering as CTO and Chief R&D Officer at GoSpotCheck and now drives backend architecture for Highwing’s open data platform for commercial insurance. A longtime Ruby on Rails enthusiast, Noel pairs hands-on backend work—APIs, data modeling, test automation—with product-minded leadership and mentoring from his cofounder days at Catalpa Labs. His open-source contributions include substantial QA and unit-test work on the FuelPHP framework, reflecting a commitment to code quality across ecosystems beyond Ruby. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into reliable, testable systems while keeping an eye on operational efficiency. Outside work he’s a long-distance runner, which he jokes makes him avoid sprint metaphors in engineering.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Colorado at Boulder
English
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Github Skills (4)
php10
unit-testing10
fuelphp10
test-automation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fuel/fuel
Feb 2011 - Feb 2011
Fuel PHP Framework v1.x is a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3+ framework, based on the best ideas of other frameworks, with a fresh start! FuelPHP is now fully PHP 8.0 compatible.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Noel primarily contributed to the FuelPHP framework by writing and updating unit tests. Their commits focused on testing various core classes, including `Uri`, `Arr`, `Date`, `Inflector`, and `Html`, demonstrating a commitment to code quality. The user's work included creating test cases, verifying expected outputs, and ensuring the correct functionality of the framework's core components. The contributions involved significant updates to existing tests as well.
fuelphpphpfuel-v1
Seppone/openshift-rbenv-installer
Sep 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:137 commits in 6 months
rbenvupdate
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