Noelle Barber is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building full‑stack web applications and a unique background in social sciences and ecology that informs pragmatic, systems‑level thinking. She has shipped features across React, Django, Rails, and Go stacks—contributing notable work to the open-source Terrastories geostorytelling project by implementing frontend filters, CSV importers, and backend specs. Comfortable from data pipelines to polished UIs, she has led reporting and analytics initiatives and practiced TDD, pair programming, and agile delivery. Alongside tech roles she runs a coffee business and works in green coffee sales, reflecting a rare blend of technical rigor, ecological curiosity, and hands-on entrepreneurial experience.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Dev Bootcamp
Public Policy Studies, Public Policy Studies at University of Chicago
Terrastories is a geostorytelling application for mapping, managing and sharing place-based stories.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Noelle primarily contributed to the Terrastories project by implementing features and making improvements across both the frontend and backend. They added model specs and made changes to React components for sorting stories. Furthermore, the user worked on importing CSV data for place and story models. Their work also included refactoring and adding new functionality, like language and community filters, to the application's React-based frontend.
Contributions:129 PRs, 130 pushes, 17 branches in 2 months
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