Isabelle Heath smiling, seated on a stone wall beside a pond

Full-Stack Software Developer & UI Engineer

Computer Science student at BYU, with an HCI emphasis, building full-stack web apps and the interfaces on top of them.

hey, I’m Isabelle!

I’m a Computer Science student at BYU, a Lab Lead for 12+ developers, a UI/UX designer who codes what I design, and the founder of a kids’ coding camp.

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What I bring to a team

Engineering, design, and leadership in one place

Full-stack

Software engineering

React and Node up front, PostgreSQL and MongoDB underneath, Docker for deployment. I built backend features for a genealogy platform that has grown to 1.1M+ unique users.

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UI / UX

Design that ships

Figma prototypes taken all the way to React, including a mobile UI I presented to 200+ people at RootsTech and BYU.

UI portfolio
Leadership

Leading & teaching

Lab Lead for 12+ student developers, founder of Camp Coderpillar, and a coding instructor for 100+ students.

Experience
where I’ve worked

Experience

Oct 2024 – Present

Lab Lead

BYU Family History Technology Lab

  • Promoted from Research Assistant to lead 12+ developers, running weekly meetings and training new hires while building software to facilitate genealogy.
  • Built Relative Finder backend features in PostgreSQL and Docker, optimizing a genealogy platform that has since grown to 1.1M+ unique users.
  • Redesigned the Virtual Pedigree landing page and help guides in React for 250K+ users.
  • Designed Funeral Memories’ mobile UI from Figma to React and presented it to 200+ people at RootsTech and BYU.

Jun 2025 – Present

CEO, Founder & Instructor

Camp Coderpillar

  • Founded a kids’ coding camp with original curriculum, earning ~$3,000 within 2 months of deployment.
  • Built the website and registration system (campcoderpillar.com), including UX design and technical setup.
  • Managed every part of the business: curriculum development, marketing, communications, parent outreach, materials prep, and tech setup.

Jul 2023 – Aug 2024

Lead Coding Instructor

iCode

  • Taught 100+ students robotics, game design, and CS fundamentals in Python and JavaScript.
things I’ve built

Software projects

Mockup of the Camp Coderpillar website: a light blue header, the headline “from curious caterpillars to confident coders,” and an illustrated caterpillar coding on a laptop
2025 · Founder

Camp Coderpillar site

The website and registration system for my kids’ coding camp. I designed the UX, worked with an artist I hired for the illustrations, and coded it myself.

  • UX design
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Mailchimp
Read the case study → Visit campcoderpillar.com →
Relative Finder
BYU Family History Technology Lab

Relative Finder

Backend features in PostgreSQL and Docker for a genealogy platform that has grown to 1.1M+ unique users.

  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
Virtual Pedigree
BYU Family History Technology Lab

Virtual Pedigree

A redesigned landing page and help guides, built in React, for 250K+ users.

  • React
  • UI/UX
Funeral Memories home page with the headline “Share and honor the memories of your loved ones” on a deep teal background
BYU Family History Technology Lab

Funeral Memories

A shared memory wall for honoring a loved one. I designed every screen in Figma and built the front end in TypeScript and React. Presented at RootsTech 2026 and the BYU Family History Workshop.

  • Figma
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • CSS
Read the case study → Visit the live site →
what I work with

Toolbox

Languages

  • Python
  • Java
  • C++
  • C
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • HTML/CSS
  • SQL

Frameworks & web

  • React
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • WebSockets
  • REST APIs

Databases & DevOps

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Git

Design

  • Figma
  • UI/UX design
  • Responsive web design
Education

Brigham Young University

B.S. Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction emphasis
Expected Spring 2028

Coursework: Data Structures, Advanced Software Construction, Web Programming, HCI

Involvement: Women in Computer Science (WICS), UX Design Association

Honors

Women Tech Awards
Invited attendee, Salt Lake City

President’s Award for Educational Excellence
4.0 GPA, top 3% of high school class