Nora Howard
Great Falls, Montana Area United States
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Top SchoolNora Howard is a software engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in Ruby and web technologies, including Rails, Sinatra, Haml, and Sass, with additional exposure to Python, Perl, and Mirah. Based in Great Falls, Montana, she combines deep hands‑on development with a curiosity for new tools and frameworks, often focusing on clarity and maintainability. Nora has contributed to open-source documentation—improving accuracy and usability for the Pants build system—demonstrating attention to detail and practical developer empathy. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Japan Studies and has studied Japanese language and culture in Japan, a background that supports cross-cultural communication and thoughtful problem solving.
17 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, Japan Studies, BS, Computer Science, Japan Studies at Montana State University-BozemanJapanese Language and Culture, Japanese Language and Culture at Kansai Gaidai University
Japanese
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Github Skills (19)
jquery10
filter10
documentation10
middleware9
javascript9
ruby9
build-system9
sinatra9
ruby-on-rails9
shell7
rack6
activerecord6
logging6
activesupport6
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pantsbuild/pants
Nov 2014 - Jun 2021
The Pants Build System
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 reviews, 234 commits, 406 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nora primarily focused on improving the documentation for the Pants build system. Their contributions involved reviewing existing documentation, running example commands, and comparing command-line arguments with help messages to identify and correct inaccuracies and typos. They also updated the commands and text to reflect changes in the targets referenced and file contents, ensuring the documentation accurately reflects the current codebase.
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