Testimonials

Hanna Rose

Naomi is an extremely hard working individual who knows no bounds but her own. She constantly pushes herself and her team to do they best they can and ensures the results she delivers is as high quality as possible. With resilient determination and outstanding coordination and leadership skills, there is no one else that could even remotely match her level of talent.

5 December 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

And also Naomi for all the work you did on the SDKs too! [These were an SDK delivered under a tight deadline for support of a new platform]

5 December 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Naomi and a colleague rotated dozens and dozens and dozens of credentials while ensuring as many tools as possible could stay functional through the holiday weekend. They used their deep knowledge of version control systems to recommend paths forward, and proactively thought of additional ways we can increase security within our repos. Naomi and her colleague were also on the call Wednesday night for hours and went on to complete many, many tasks throughout the long weekend. Kudos to Naomi and colleagues for diligently combing through our repos and undoing the erroneous changes.

1 December 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

We've had a lot of help along the way, including the tireless work colleagues like Naomi have put into making this happen, plus short-order efforts from engineering teams (including Naomi) to get our SDKs ready for this product launch.

21 November 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

I wanted to give some BIG shout Kudos to both Naomi and a colleague for the amazing work they both did to re-architect our API Specs! I just contributed my first change to the new architecture and it's much easier to grok and navigate now. Our first version of the API Spec was near and dear to my heart as I did a lot of work on it, but this new version is 1000 times better! Here's to constantly improving our developer experience both internally and externally!

15 October 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

big kudos to the many deeply involved teams taking this to launch during crunch time -- DX (including Naomi) [the rest has been removed for privacy]

3 October 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Just want to send major kudos to colleagues for managing the busy editorial workflow, helping buffer posts, and to Naomi for posting to Instagram while I was away! Couldn't have done it without you all - so THANK YOU! Y'all are awesome!!

3 October 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Naomi built our incredible syndicated community help channel which among other things made it easy for us to see customer feedback and help customers more quickly. Naomi ramped up incredibly quickly and took on a breadth of projects across the org. You'll see her work leading the information architecture changes for new product docs and launching the new product demos, casually addressing an infra issue (on launch day). You'll see her making critical SDK changes across many languages. You'll see her being calm and considerate even under pressure. I'm very grateful for her SDK work on temp keys which enabled many critical customers to launch with token-based auth. This project was an early opportunity to see Naomi shine, she took on something complex and ambiguous so quickly and confidently and was an excellent collaborator throughout. Inside and outside the org she is a community builder, actively trying to build community and connection in many different ways while putting inclusion at the forefront. I also loved her presentation for Pride month this year.

3 October 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

I wanted to give a shout out to Naomi who is always so patient when I ask her about complex GIT situations I "git" myself into. Whether it's a funky rebase or major merge conflicts she always has the answers and is soooo helpful.

26 September 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

I wanted to give a shout out to Naomi who is always so patient when I ask her about complex GIT situations I "git" myself into. Whether it's a funky rebase or major merge conflicts she always has the answers and is so helpful.

26 September 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Kudos to Naomi for all of the initiatives on Discord. The community is really thriving and it is bringing more engagement to the organization!

11 September 2025

Christine Chapman

Our company needed a streamlined way to respond to the community across multiple platforms like Discord and GitHub. Naomi built a streamlined Slack workflow to syndicate messages across the platforms. This enables people like me to easily respond to messages from customers without needing to bounce around to different platforms and makes it easier to track information. A lot of the metadata that gets pulled in is impressive and reflects the quality and detail of Naomi's work. The system "just works", you don't have to think about how or why which is always a great quality in an internal tool. On a separate occasion, my team worked on a project that needed SDK support quite urgently. Naomi had no prior context on the project but dove in and quickly wrote the solution across multiple SDKs, owning it long-term and fixing issues as they arose. This enabled my team to achieve a major milestone.

28 August 2025

Satyarth Ranjan

I had the distinct pleasure of participating in the recent month-long FreeCodeCamp Summer Hackathon, which was impeccably managed by Naomi. Her organizational skills are outstanding. She seamlessly coordinated a global event with over 21 teams, demonstrating remarkable foresight by grouping participants by timezone to foster effective collaboration and implementing a bot to ensure a fair and transparent work environment. ​Beyond her management abilities, Naomi is a gifted teacher. I was fortunate to learn Git and GitHub from her free, live course just before the event, which equipped me with the essential skills to contribute effectively from day one. Her constant support and availability made a huge difference to all of us. Naomi is an inspiring community manager and educator, and I wholeheartedly recommend her.

21 August 2025

Abigail Rennemeyer

I've worked with Naomi at freeCodeCamp.org for a number of years, and I've always been impressed by her ability to learn absolutely anything. Her intellectual curiosity stands out and allows her to find a problem, tackle it quickly, and resolve it - even if she didn't have prior knowledge of the issue. She's a research pro, and you can always have faith that she's looked at and learned about all sides of an idea or issue. Naomi is also a passionate community organizer, and seems to have boundless energy for helping people learn, find a community, and solve problems. She freely shares information and makes her voice heard, making her a valued and valuable member of any team. She's also incredibly effective at engaging learners/platform users and inspiring them to participate and contribute to whatever initiative she's working on. I've always appreciated Naomi's candour, eloquence, quick wit, and willingness to jump in and help with whatever's needed - crucial in a small non-profit like freeCodeCamp, but undeniably useful anywhere. I don't know if there's anything she can't figure out or strategize about given a little time, and her dedication to her work is truly inspiring.

20 August 2025

Rex Schrader

I have had the pleasure of working alongside Naomi in her Community Manager role at Free Code Camp (FCC). We first worked together on co-building some curriculum for FCC's Quality Assurance certifications. I was impressed by her technical know-how and skill. Her easy going attitude makes her a joy to work with. Since that time I have seen her grow into her role as the Free Code Camp Community Manager. She manages to ride herd over our frequently unruly Discord server, setting the tone for moderators and participants alike. She has built a suite of tools over the years which enable us to moderate at scale, with auditable actions and results. On top of all of this, she planned, created, and judged a complete online Hackathon. She has a series of community events planned going forward to keep the community engaged and learning. Maintaining a community the size of Free Code Camp's Discord is not easy. We have to deal with constant attacks by scammers and spammers, compromised accounts, trolls, and other bad actors. Naomi's tools make navigating these challenges possible, at scale. Additionally, she has a firm commitment to the heath of the community. She is willing to make the hard choices to ban individuals that threaten the health of the community. She is also willing to listen and provide guidance to the merely misguided. I stand in awe of Naomi boundless energy for curating and maintaining such a positive and welcoming space for learning. She combines her technical skill with her care for the community to create a vibrant and fun community. I have nothing but respect and admiration for her ongoing contributions to Free Code Camp.

18 August 2025

Tihomir Manushev

Naomi did amazing job managing the first ever freeCodeCamp hackathon! She is extremely dedicated at everything she does. I've learned a lot during the hackathon and will gladly participate in the next one.

16 August 2025

Andrew Glass

I had the pleasure to work with Naomi at Rythm, who was an absolute treat to work with. Naomi is someone with an incredible warehouse of skills & a wonderful personality to back it up. She's very outspoken with a strong moral compass and really knows how to ensure every project goes the right direction. Naomi was truly a silver bullet for any issues we had. You could ask her for help solving anything and she'd whip up a whole plan in her head in 30 seconds. 400,000 member Discord community we need to come up with a resilient system for? Literally no problem at all. Just remember, with great power comes great responsibility, so try not to overwork the poor gal, because she's always eager to take on anything and everything.

16 August 2025

Luke Sullivan

I participated in freeCodeCamp’s 2025 Summer Hackathon, organised and led by Naomi. It was a fantastic experience, and Naomi did an outstanding job of supporting a wide range of participants with diverse needs. Her dedication extended beyond event management — she provided both team and one-on-one coaching sessions to help us prepare for future coding endeavours. I cannot emphasise enough how useful this experience was to me and my team, who ended up with a project we are truly proud of.

15 August 2025

Mrugesh Mohapatra

Naomi is one of the smartest engineers I have worked with. She has a knack for solving complex problems and fostering community growth. Her technical expertise and collaborative spirit have consistently helped our team work at its peak. She is a quick learner and just gets things done. I could not have been more prouder and privileged to work alongside her.

15 August 2025

Thomas Gooch

I had the privilege of working alongside Naomi Carrigan during the Dallas Software Developers Summer Cohort, where she played a pivotal role in supporting the management of multiple teams. Naomi brought a rare blend of technical expertise, organizational insight, and people-first leadership that elevated the entire program. Her ability to seamlessly balance hands-on technical guidance with strategic team coordination ensured that my group not only met their goals but also grew in skill and confidence along the way. Naomi consistently anticipated challenges before they became blockers, provided thoughtful mentorship to developers of all levels, and fostered an environment where collaboration thrived. What impressed me most was Naomi’s combination of high standards and genuine care — she held teams accountable to producing quality work while also making sure individuals felt supported and empowered. Her professionalism, adaptability, and deep well of technical knowledge made her an invaluable part of the cohort’s success. Any organization fortunate enough to have Naomi on board will gain a leader who inspires trust, drives results, and makes a meaningful impact from day one.

15 August 2025

Pete Lamonica

Naomi is a hard working, creative leader who has a remarkable history of building vibrant and supportive communities. As a programmer, she builds software that handles real world challenges and focuses on users’ needs. I’ve seen her ability to leverage a variety of technologies across the stack to solve a diverse set of challenges and adapt and grow her solutions over time. She’s also combined her community leadership skills with her software development skills to help support many other developers as they contribute to her projects and others. Overall, Naomi has an excellent mix of leadership and technical skills that make her a great addition to any team.

15 August 2025

Qais Zaidalkilani

I had the absolute pleasure of working with Naomi at Rythm, and honestly, she was the glue that held so many parts of our operation together. She ran all our Discord bots, handled website integrations, drove community development, and still somehow found time to give us thoughtful advice on how to build and nurture our community. She was also the voice of reason when I’d get a little too excited about something, helping me slow down, think things through, and make better calls. It often felt like the team had a magic button: ask Naomi for something, and before long it would be done, and done right. Everything she delivered was secure, scalable, and polished to perfection. If I had a team full of Naomis, I’m convinced we could take over the world. But the truth is, there’s only one Naomi, and she’s that unique, that talented, and that good. Any team lucky enough to have her will feel the difference immediately.

15 August 2025

Ariel Thompson

I've known Naomi through freeCodeCamp since she herself was a student. I remain impressed by how quickly she was able to go from a novice to having professionally competitive programming skills. She learns astonishingly quickly because she is focused, tenacious, and pragmatic. If she wants to accomplish something, she will simply figure out how to make it happen. This is not only true of gaining technical skills, but also pursuing high-level goals. Her efforts to build a social community, for example, has led her to effectively become the public face of freeCodeCamp. If I ever get the opportunity to work with Naomi professionally, I will take it without hesitation.

14 August 2025

John Vajda

Naomi is an exceptional engineer and an inspiring community leader, bringing a rare combination of deep technical expertise and community management skills. She approaches every project with enthusiasm, creativity, and a collaborative spirit, making her an invaluable teammate. Any team would be fortunate to have her contributions and leadership.

14 August 2025

Nielda Karlo Melo

Naomi is one of the most competent professionals I have had the pleasure of working with. She has an exceptional presence, giving the impression of being everywhere at once, and her attention to detail is remarkable. She is able to identify subtle points and gaps in reasoning that others might miss and point that out in a respectful way. Naomi is not one to avoid difficult conversations. She expresses her opinions with clarity, confidence, and thoughtfulness. Her work on freeCodeCamp’s Discord, in addition to the many other code-related contributions she has made, is nothing short of impressive. She has kept the community engaged, planned events that people genuinely want to attend, and led the management of the entire space. Thanks to her leadership, the community has become a respectful, welcoming, and valuable place to be a part of. Any team would be fortunate to have Naomi’s expertise, dedication, and leadership.

14 August 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Kudos to our amazing applied engineering and developer experience teams for the incredible amount of multifaceted work they do with small crews - the context switching, the ability to toggle between human and machine interfacing, and helping the non-engineering folks (like us in marketing) to create authentic experiences with our very technical users. We are working with HIGHLY visible influencers, launching all kinds of campaigns and collaborating with partners/customers to stand up dev-facing events and your input and support puts the R in ROI. Extra thank you to Naomi and colleagues.

23 July 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Quick shout out to a colleague and Naomi today for a late night hot fix and lighting fast review (7 mins!) for our NodeJS SDK to get audio streaming working with the latest React (5+). Release - v4.9.1 updates our webpack support for modern JS bundlers (Vite, React App v5+, Next.js) to fix streaming audio through the browser. This helped unblock an important prospect that would impact other important buyers in that market. Great bias for action, and tight teamwork all around, bravo!

9 July 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

I want to give BIG kudos to Naomi and colleagues for their strength, bravery and love they shared with all of us today! What a tremendous presentation full of passion, information and dedication!

26 June 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

I want to give some big Kudos to Naomi and a colleague for all the great developer experience work they did last week while many of us were travelling. Naomi pushed forward with internal chatbot development, which is a company-centric Slack Bot that uses our knowledge base to answer questions. This bot is available in our current Slack Workspace now! Long Term we want to make it available to our customers to install in their own workspaces so they can get their questions answered quickly. It will eventually be Voice Enabled using our Voice API, which means customers would authenticate and make API requests to use Voice features

22 May 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Kudos to a colleague and Naomi for all their work on docs and SDKs for a major product release. This involved a LOT of moving parts and the colleague really brought it together nicely.

9 May 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Your product is only as good as your onboarding, and the Console team and developer experience teams have worked tirelessly amidst many changes to ensure we're putting our best foot forward. Thank you to Naomi and all the dedicated colleagues who made this possible.

15 April 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Kudos to a colleague and Naomi for making the community scores really easy to calculate with Slack commands and spreadsheets

2 April 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

I want to give some kudos to colleagues on the developer experience team - including Naomi - for coming up with a Community Engagement contest. I LOVE this idea for getting team members more involved in helping users of our product (especially developers) find the answers they need in our community (Discord, Github discussions, etc). I know as a team member, it's always challenging to find time to help out in the community, but I think this contest and the monetary reward could be very motivating! And since I'm working on a different team at the moment, making me eligible to win the contest, I'm really looking forward to all the Amazon gift cards I'll soon be getting.

5 March 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

A big kudos is deserved to a small but mighty group of individuals that championed our docs migration, including Naomi and several colleagues. There's a lot of pressure with a switch like this, because docs are a source of truth. One mistake and you've impacted thousands of companies. Sounds easy, right? They took on a very quick timeline and a number of changes as part of the effort - thinking about an elegant way to present our platform, creating an OpenAPI spec from scratch for all of our APIs, and then accounting for all the many many little details to make the whole switch successful. That OpenAPI spec is really exciting too because it enables our customers to build faster, sets us up to jump into the Postman community, and it also creates a foundation for us to automate our SDK development. Thank you for getting us to this major milestone

20 February 2025

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

I wanted to give big kudos to Naomi and a colleague for the AMAZING job they've done to help automate our Community support. Our community help channel has streamlined our ability to engage with users on Github Discussions and Discord helping us deliver a stellar community experience driving ARR and reduce customer churn.

8 November 2024

Alexis Madsen

Naomi always had the knowledge and information for nearly every question I ever had. It was such an honour to work with her, and anyone would be lucky to have the chance for her to work with you or your team.

28 October 2024

Chris Ohman

Naomi's erudition on just about every development topic under the sun, expediency at completing massive technical undertakings solo, and undeniable passion for the work she does is an ever-present joy and boon for any organization lucky enough to work with her. As an example, Naomi composed an extensive and accessible DB comprising all available traits and behaviors of our Users, whipped up an extremely user-friendly API that our team of end-users could utilize seamlessly, and regularly developed additional clever dataflows for very particular asks. Every aspect of this work was done impeccably and frictionlessly, and that's just one of the dozens of projects she developed with our team during the time I worked alongside her. As brilliant as Naomi is, she's also humble, hilarious, and an all-around aspirational figure to all people looking to find true passion for themselves alongside professional success. I strive to be more like her, and I know I'm not alone in that.

27 September 2024

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Kudos to colleagues for leading the SDKs, all the guides, and providing expert knowledge on audio and frameworks. And all of the developer experience team including Naomi for supporting all things with our GA launch, testing our websockets, providing guidance, and more!

18 September 2024

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

HUGE mysterious kudos to Naomi. I won't say why, hopefully you'll all see it very very soon. Naomi and I have been working together in open source and other communities for a few years now. I knew when we needed to build something amazing, she'd knock it out of the park.

13 September 2024

Internal Feedback (Anonymised for privacy)

Naomi is relentlessly working to automate our Community and helping to alleviate some Tier 1 support overhead so the developer experience team can continue to deliver on our commitments and provide as much value to our organization and our users as possible.

28 August 2024

Alix Takada Sharp

Naomi is an incredibly dynamic and resourceful professional, always ready with a multitude of solutions for any challenge. Her problem-solving skills are like watching a masterful sequence unfold, earning her the well-deserved nickname 'the technomancer.' Naomi's strong educational background is evident in her clear and concise explanations, making complex concepts easily understandable. She excels in communication, ensuring that everyone feels valued and integral to the team. Naomi is truly the glue that holds any team together. Adding her to your team will be a decision you won't regret.

15 July 2024

Kaitlyn Nichols

She is a dedicated programmer and spends most of her time either making bots, or coding. She has an excellent work ethic and goes until she is satisfied with the end product.

30 May 2024

Katey Berry

I've worked alongside Naomi on a number of projects, and it is always a blessing to have her on the team. She is knowledgable, reliable, and always willing to jump in with creative and efficient engineering solutions to complex workflow problems. Naomi is also such a patient teacher, effectively explaining how things work and enabling others to become more independent. I always look forward to working with Naomi, and recommend you work with her if you have the opportunity!

14 May 2024

Francez Urmatan

Naomi is an absolute trailblazer, and is an amazing person to work with! Naomi is humorous and also has an amazing attitude to work with. Her ability to solve complex problems efficiently astounds me. Not only does she demonstrate outstanding technical knowledge, but also does an amazing job at elucidating her needs as an engineer. She is a very warm person and quite easy to work with. Naomi is immensely perceptive and very calculated with what she does. Naomi would make an excellent addition to any company that is lucky enough to hire her!

2 May 2024

Danny Thompson

If you need a problem solver, look at Naomi. Naomi is a fantastic part of the online tech community by teaching and offering help to beginners on their journeys into tech. She has created some great solutions and is a consistent learner. Naomi has led initiatives using Javascript and front-end technologies to produce finished products within a volunteer position. Highly recommend Naomi to any team.

6 July 2023

Eddie Jaoude

Naomi has done a fantastic job in creating Becca Bot, which is an integral part in managing the EddieHub Discord Community. As founder of EddieHub, Naomi is super helpful to all Community members and an excellent moderator, from our text channels to audio calls and live streams. Naomi demonstrates an excellent technical knowledge and is always keen to share this with the community.

30 June 2023