Noel Peden
Software Solution Architect at Stray Dog Studio
La Grande, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNoel Peden is a Software Solution Architect with 14 years of experience translating complex manufacturing and enterprise requirements into practical, deployable software—currently providing pre-sales through go-live solutions at Fortna from his base in La Grande, Oregon. A lifelong tinkerer since the Apple IIe era, he blends hands-on development (Ruby/Rails, Ember.js, SQL) with team leadership and product-focused architecture across companies like Woodgrain, Boise Cascade, and Material Handling Systems. He maintains a long-running sole proprietor studio doing web and design work, authors technical courses for Pluralsight, and contributes to open-source projects such as enhancements to the axlsx gem for robust XLSX generation. Known for bridging UX, ERP/SAP integrations, and shop-floor systems, he pairs a physics degree (3.98 GPA) and A&P technical training with a practical knack for turning messy operational needs into elegant software.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, 3.98 with honors, Bachelor's degree, Physics, 3.98 with honors at Eastern Oregon UniversityTwo year certificate, Aviation Maintenance (A&P License), 4.0, Two year certificate, Aviation Maintenance (A&P License), 4.0 at Portland Community College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
bump2version10
versioning10
bump10
bumpversion10
rubygems10
ruby10
twitter-bootstrap9
css6
spreadsheet6
xlsx6
excel6
axlsx6
redirect6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
caxlsx/caxlsx
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
xlsx generation with charts, images, automated column width, customizable styles and full schema validation. Axlsx excels at helping you generate beautiful Office Open XML Spreadsheet documents without having to understand the entire ECMA specification. Check out the README for some examples of how easy it is. Best of all, you can validate your xlsx file before serialization so you know for sure that anything generated is going to load on your client's machine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 62 commits, 39 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Noel primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `axlsx` gem, focusing on features related to XLSX file generation. Their work involved version bumping, and implementing enhancements like binary image reading and fixing issues related to the explosion function in pie charts. They also made improvements to error handling and range definitions within the worksheet functionality, as well as updating dependencies to ensure proper performance.
axlsxecmaopenxmlschema-validationserialization
straydogstudio/film_roll
Aug 2013 - Sep 2021
A lightweight jQuery carousel that centers one item at a time on the page.
Contributions:3 releases, 129 commits, 1 PR in 8 years 2 months
jquery
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