Whitney Young
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarWhitney Young is a versatile software engineer with 16 years focused on web and mobile development, based in Bend, Oregon. She thrives on collaborative problem-solving and clear communication, translating design and user interaction ideas into clean, maintainable code. Whitney contributes to open source through documentation and QA—improving Bookshelf.js docs and strengthening Kaminari’s test suite and CI coverage—highlighting her attention to developer experience and reliability. Beyond coding she occasionally teaches and speaks, bringing clarity to complex topics for teams and communities. Outside work she’s an avid cyclist and spicy-food cook, which reflects her steady curiosity and taste for bold solutions.
15 years of coding experience
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (28)
objective-c10
ruby-rails10
kaminari10
ios10
memory-leaks10
testing10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
orm10
bookshelfjs10
documentation10
javascript9
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instance-variables9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
kaminari/kaminari
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
⚡ A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Ruby webapps
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Whitney's contributions primarily focused on improving the test suite within the Kaminari project. They addressed issues related to test environment setup, specifically for different database systems like DataMapper, by ensuring proper truncation strategies. They also updated tests to align with the correct Rails version and added support for Coveralls for continuous integration and code coverage analysis, demonstrating a focus on quality assurance and maintainability.
ruby-on-railsspreerubyonrailskaminaripagination
bookshelf/bookshelf
May 2014 - Jul 2014
A simple Node.js ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 built on top of Knex.js
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Whitney's contributions primarily focused on improving the documentation within the Bookshelf.js repository. They improved existing documentation by adding code highlighting and expanding on examples. Furthermore, the user simplified existing migration examples to aid in clearer documentation.
mysqlnode-jsjavascriptsqlsqlite3
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