Susan Lister
Founder at Liberating Minds
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSusan Lister is a founder and software professional with nine years of experience blending technical development and human-centered work from Adelaide, Australia. With a dual background in Computer Science and Psychology, she brings a rare mix of backend engineering chops and insight into user needs—skills she applied as a contributor to RapidPro, improving Django view clarity and integrating ticketing features for scalable messaging applications. After eight years as a counselor, she shifted to entrepreneurship in 2021, founding Liberating Minds to combine technology and wellbeing-focused solutions. Practical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working deep in backend code, she favors clear, maintainable changes that improve product usability and operational workflows.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's, Computer Science & Psychology, Bachelor's, Computer Science & Psychology at University of Delaware
Github Skills (12)
python10
back-end-development10
django10
webapp9
web-application9
web-development9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
architectures6
architecture6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rapidpro/rapidpro
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
RapidPro allows organizations to visually build scalable interactive messaging applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:117 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Susan primarily worked on modifying and improving page titles within the RapidPro application. They focused on altering existing Django view code, particularly within the classifiers and channels applications. These changes involved switching from `derive_title` methods to direct `title` declarations for improved clarity. Additionally, the user appears to have contributed to the integration of a ticketing system, adding new features, permissions and content menu items for downloading tickets.
scalableorganizationsrapidpromessaging
susanm74/temba-components
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
General web components for site building
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 days
webcomponentsweb-components
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