Tara Roys
Successfully Escaped The Rat Race
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTara Roys is a pragmatic full-stack developer and maker with 14 years of technical experience and a background in English and immersive full-stack training from Dev Bootcamp. She focuses on durable, well-documented systems and developer ergonomics—preferring foundations that prevent future rewrites over rushed speed. Tara has contributed significant usability and modularity improvements to the Talon voice-command community project, adding a comprehensive help menu and pagination to tame long command lists. Beyond code, she runs East Wind Nut Butters, where she applies cooperative, humane business practices and hands-on product work, reflecting a commitment to ethical, sustainable craft. Known for turning hard-to-find onboarding steps into clear instructions, she blends developer empathy with real-world production and operations experience.
14 years of coding experience
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Dev BootcampUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
python10
ui-design8
heroku6
activerecord6
sinatra6
ffmpeg6
iphone6
ruby6
sublime-text6
ruby-on-rails6
automation5
automations5
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
talonhub/community
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Voice command set for Talon, community-supported.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Tara significantly enhanced the "Talon" voice command set by implementing a comprehensive help menu. Their contributions include adding menus for symbols, punctuation, modifiers, simple keys, alternate keys, formatters, arrows, numbers, and function keys. They refactored the code to improve modularity, introduced pagination for long lists, and fixed a bug related to the "recent repeat" command, increasing the usability of the application.
talontalonvoicevimwindowsin-progress
tararoys/Accessible-Movie-Magic
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:175 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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