Libby Molina

“It is without any hesitation that I recommend Libby Molina with my highest possibly praise. She's not just on my A-list, she's in my top 3. I would happily work with her anywhere under any conditions. Without a doubt, Libby Molina is the unicorn of unicorns. She ships high quality and highly innovative code, she's outstandingly smart, she's a great teacher and teammate, and she's a tireless champion for the things that matter. I've yet to find anything she can't handle with aplomb and vigor. While she classifies herself as a front-end, I've seen her deliver entire Rails projects with JSMVC front-ends by herself. She's also an outstanding teacher; she was instrumental in helping build an on-going education program at Burnside Digital that the design, front-end, and the dev team participated in and spoke highly of. This program included tear-downs of important commercial websites like the Apple iPhone site, the Nike parallax demo, and many other hallmarks of the industry that I would have never understood without her careful guidance and her patience. Yet she remains humble, eager to learn, and an absolute delight to work with, despite all that amazing in one place. I miss coming in to her peals of laugher each morning, I miss the nerf darts slung at my desk, and I miss the little notes of praise she leaves on your desk when you do something awesome.”

“Working with Libby has always an exercise in expecting the unexpected. And I mean that in the best way possible. She's the sort of person that embodies the premise of under-promise and over-deliver. As a front end designer and developer, there is a fair amount of subjectivity around style and visual tastes. - For the record, I think hers is excellent, but if we're talking about the objective qualities of someone who is smart, passionate about what they do and gets things done than I can think of no one I'd rather have heading up the front end of a complicated project than her. She's a great technologist, fantastic at internal and external client interface and she knows a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff. Beyond being an expert in HTML, CSS, Photoshop she has a lot of aptitude for server side presentation language aspects of PHP and Ruby. She has an eye for the big picOne of her best qualities is her ability to pick up and run with whatever technology requirements come her way. If she has to pick up new skills, paradigms and process, she's more than a willing follower, she's an active leader constantly bringing new insights to her teams about how to integrate and work with whatever platforms, services, languages and tools we've decided to execute on.”