Nora Strong
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNora Strong is a Staff Software Engineer based in the Portland metro area with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems and modernizing legacy stacks. She has driven migrations from NodeJS/Mongo to Spring Boot/Postgres, designed ETL pipelines and reporting databases, and implemented GraphQL backends, demonstrating strong data engineering and integration skills. Nora’s career progression from support and operations into senior engineering roles reflects a pragmatic, systems-first approach—she’s comfortable debugging production issues, containerizing products, and leading cloud migrations to Kubernetes. An active contributor to open source, she’s made maintainability-focused improvements and added a HID driver to the well-known RetroArch project, showing attention to detail and willingness to work across C and higher-level stacks.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Boise State UniversityAssociate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Computer Network Systems Technology, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Computer Network Systems Technology at ITT Technical Institute
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
libretro/RetroArch
Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
Cross-platform, sophisticated frontend for the libretro API. Licensed GPLv3.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 139 commits, 46 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nora primarily focused on cleaning up code, removing whitespace, and ensuring consistent line endings across multiple C source files within the repository. These changes, though seemingly minor, contribute to code maintainability. The user also implemented a new skeleton HID driver.
frontendlibretrocretroarch
gblues/aws-ml-opt-out
Jun 2021 - Jan 2024
A Terraform module that makes it a snap to opt out of all AWS AI/ML data harvesting.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
aiawsmachine-learningterraform-moduleoptout
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