Cara Tang
Faculty at Portland Community College
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCara Tang is a seasoned software professional and academic, bringing over a decade of Java-centric development experience to higher education and industry. She has designed and implemented enterprise applications, GUIs, web services, and databases, with hands-on work at Monsanto in operations research and software design (Java, Spring, Hibernate, CXF) and an agile, TDD-driven approach. As a faculty member at Portland Community College since 2012 and adjunct at Rider University since 2021, she leads the Cybersecurity program and chairs ACM2Y, translating complex concepts into accessible curricula across university, community college, and high school levels. She holds a Doctor of Science in Computer Science from Heidelberg University and an MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, underscoring a strong research and theoretical foundation combined with practical delivery. Based in Portland, she pursues interdisciplinary teaching and program leadership, helping students and colleagues connect rigorous software engineering with real-world applications.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Virginia TechDoctor of Science, Computer Science, Doctor of Science, Computer Science at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg / Heidelberg University
Github Skills (1)
command-line-tool2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
caratang/spring18-zoo
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 7 days
elifoster/CIS233J-lab4
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 4 comments in 1 day
conversionsjavalabcis
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