Mary Beth Burch
Software Engineer
Summary

I value efficient and performant code, with an emphasis on test-driven development. I bring strong leadership, communication and problem solving skills I've built through my diverse work experience. I enjoy working with others who value collaboration, curiosity,  challenging work, and a growth mindset.

Education
Turing School of Software & Design
Community Involvement: Women Who Code, Young Entrepreneurs, Kids Who Code
Certificate of Web Application with Ruby, Rails, & JS; 2016
University of Colorado Denver
MA Educational Psychology; 2011
Warren Wilson College
BA Outdoor Leadership; 2000
Work
GoSpotCheck
Denver, CO
Delivery Engineer
Oct. 2017 to Current

Build and maintain custom tools and solutions for clients and internal customer success team; Build and optimize ETL's, PostgreSQL custom views and functions for advanced client data reporting; Collaborate with other engineers through pair programming, pull requests, and code reviews; Tools and languages used: Ruby on Rails, RSpec, PostgreSQL, CircleCI, AWS, Heroku, PivotalTracker

Astronomer
Cincinnati, OH (Remote)
Implementation Engineer
June 2017 to Sept. 2017

Build and maintain open source Aries Activities in Node.js that interface with external API's; Build ETL pipelines using Apache Airflow and Python DAGs; Maintain and improve testing suite and continuous integration deployment process; Write and maintain customer facing and internal documentation

Haught Codeworks
Denver, CO (Remote)
Web Developer
Feb. 2016 to April 2017

Build and maintain web applications, from greenfield apps to legacy codebases, using Ruby on Rails, RSpec, JavaScript, Ember, and HTML/CSS; Collaborate and pair program with other developers; Participate in weekly client meetings; Author blog posts, team guides, and documentation; Effectively track projects and communicate with a 100% distributed team.

Downtown Denver Expeditionary School
Denver, CO
Adventure Specialist
2013 to 2015

Designed and implemented a robust outdoor adventure program. Collaborated with staff members, student families, and outside organizations.

Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning
Denver, CO
Middle School Humanities Teacher
2009 to 2013

Planned and taught middle school humanities curriculum. Served as mentor teacher.


Code
Analog Clock

- Small personal project to build an analog clock in JavaScript

- https://github.com/mbburch/analog-clock

- https://mbburch.github.io/analog-clock/

SimpleCal

- A basic calendar app built in Rails

- https://github.com/mbburch/simple-cal

- https://simple-cal.herokuapp.com

Aries Activity Chargify Source

- An open source Node.js activity that streams data from Chargify API endpoints and stores it in an S3 bucket to be accessed by other activities in ETL pipelines 

- https://github.com/aries-data/aries-activity-chargify-source

Votestance

- A polling application that uses WebSockets to push data to clients in real time

- Node.js, Express, Mocha, Chai, Zombie, ejs, Socket.io

- https://github.com/mbburch/votestance

- https://votestance.herokuapp.com

Skills
Tools: Ruby 2.x, Rails 4.x/ 5.x, JavaScript/ ES6, jQuery, TDD/BDD, Git, PostgreSQL, ActiveRecord, AJAX, OAuth, HTML5 & CSS3/SCSS, React, Node.js, Apache Airflow, Docker, MongoDB
Interests: Data visualization, Mapping tools, Python, Go
Volunteering
Turing School of Software & Design · Mentor
Aug. 2017 to Current
Lesbians Who Tech · City Leader
March 2017 to Current