Lisa Redmond is a Hawaii-based full stack software developer with over a decade of professional experience and two years in coding and software engineering.
She is currently available for hire.
My Background
Being a linguist at heart, I had a hunch that my love and skill for spoken language would translate well into computer languages. The syntax, communication, and evolution of language spanned both worlds, and, as expected, I found computer programming a perfect fit. I am passionate about EdTech and using my skills to improve the lives of those around me and am looking for my next role at an impact-driven company.
FlatIron School
Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and React
September 2021 – January 2022
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Software Engineer
May 2024 – present
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At Flatiron I learned Javascript and React front end + Ruby on Rails back end.
I worked on four partnered projects and one capstone independent project. For my final project I built a digital piano and sheet music generator. I also studied data structures and algorithms and wrote a three-part blog series on the Levenshtein Distance algorithm.
At TechChange, I got to bring my background in education together with my values of social change and doing good to work on an edtech learning and hybrid-events platform aimed at serving community and humanitarian organizations.
As a junior developer I worked on a Node back end for the first time, learning on the job so I could contribute full stack. I worked on bug fixes, improving existing features, and developing new ones alongside an amazing team of like-minded and driven programmers.
Read my Staff Spotlight article here!
At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt I worked on the team that handled student reports provided to families and school and district administrators as a result of NWEA testing services.
Using Typescript and NextJS, I contributed to a new report selection tool used on our platform. I reduced team tech debt through unit test writing that improved test coverage of our code by over 25%. I learned to use CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Cypress, and participated in stress testing work using AWS.