Jennifer Thakar
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Thakar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience based in San Francisco, currently on Google's CSS team improving infrastructure for Sass and CSS. She is an active open-source contributor to flagship projects like dart-sass, the Sass JS API, and stylelint, shipping features such as an interactive SassScript REPL, deprecations API integration, and cross‑syntax linting fixes. Her work spans core language tooling, CLI and packaging improvements, and documentation—bringing both backend and full-stack chops plus technical writing to make developer tools more usable. Before Google she taught and developed course software for UC Berkeley's CS 61A, a background that underpins strong mentoring and communication skills. Notably, she has driven portability and serialization bug fixes and tuned linting rules (for example addressing ::highlight false positives) that improve correctness across real-world CSS/SCSS/Less codebases.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (37)
api-doc10
javascript10
documentations10
css10
sass10
enforcement10
convention10
postcss10
api10
javascripts10
conventions10
linter10
linting10
dart10
documentation10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sass/sass-site
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Sass Website
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:92 reviews, 17 commits, 130 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jennifer primarily contributed to the documentation of the Sass website. They updated the documentation for the module migrator, including details about new features, command-line options, and dependency loading. Additional documentation updates included adding information on configuring modules through imports, the namespace migrator, and the division migrator, alongside fixing a parameter range in color.change documentation and correcting a duplicate header in the string documentation.
csssassscss
sass/dart-sass
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
The reference implementation of Sass, written in Dart.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:316 reviews, 84 commits, 183 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Jennifer contributed to the core functionality and tooling of the Dart Sass project. Their work included improving the portability of the package script, fixing a bug in the color serialization for compressed mode, adding parsers for expressions and variable declarations, and implementing an interactive SassScript REPL. They also added support for evaluating individual expressions and made multiple updates to the command-line interface and other parts of the project to enhance the user experience and maintainability.
sassdart-sasscssdartcss-preprocessor
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