Tracy Mccormick
Lead Software Engineer at PALNI/PALCI
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolTracy Mccormick is a Lead Software Engineer with over 25 years in IT and more than a decade focused on software development, currently driving application maintenance and new feature development at West Virginia University. She specializes in full-stack web development with PHP/Laravel, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript, and supports systems using MySQL/Postgres, Docker, Solr and Fedora within the Samvera community. Tracy has progressed from hands-on systems administration and field support to leading development efforts, giving her a rare blend of infrastructure savvy and application-level craftsmanship. She has embraced AI-assisted tooling like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to automate refactoring of legacy code, accelerating modernization work. Based in Pennsylvania, she combines strong academic credentials (MS Information Systems) with long-term open-source community collaboration and practical experience across higher education and consortium projects.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Information Systems, 3.8, MS, Information Systems, 3.8 at University of PhoenixBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Fairmont State University
English
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Github Skills (34)
bootstrap10
correspondence10
bulkimport10
hydra9
mysql9
laravel9
rails9
blacklight9
ruby-on-rails8
alfresco8
vms8
porting8
digital-preservation8
multi-tenant7
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wvulibraries/library_directory
Apr 2019 - Aug 2023
Employee Directory for wvu library.
Contributions:3 reviews, 33 PRs, 246 pushes in 4 years 4 months
railsdockerrspecdirectoryelasticsearch
wvulibraries/DDA_Oasis
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
KARM form for ordering from Oasis.
Contributions:11 PRs, 78 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 8 months
oasisordering
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