Aileen Booker
Web Developer at Ghost
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAileen Booker is a seasoned Web Developer with 11 years of experience building polished front-ends and improving editor UX for Ghost, the popular open-source publishing platform. Based in Dubai, she has progressed from intern to senior contributor at Ghost, shipping UI refinements, editor features, timezone integrations and admin integrations that improve publisher workflows. Her open-source work spans multiple official Ghost themes and starters—where she’s modernized build pipelines (Gulp v4), added livereload for Handlebars, fixed responsive layout and image rendering issues, and implemented UX touches like infinite scroll. Combining a background in business engineering and HR systems with hands-on front-end and full-stack development, she brings a pragmatic, user-focused approach to product-facing code. Notably, she pairs attention to visual detail with developer experience improvements that speed iteration for theme and editor authors.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma, Higher National Diploma at Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln - University of Applied Science
German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (25)
javascript10
handlebars10
css10
gulp10
microblogging10
ui-design10
ghost10
uid10
front-end-development10
ember10
html10
blogpost10
theme-development10
gatsby10
react10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TryGhost/gatsby-starter-ghost
Dec 2018 - May 2022
A starter template to build lightning fast websites with Ghost & Gatsby
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 221 commits, 61 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Aileen primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Gatsby-based website. They focused on removing and adding dependencies, refactoring the layout components (Header, Footer), implementing new components (PostCard), and improving the overall structure. Their work included creating and improving page and post templates.
gatsbyreactgatsby-ghoststatic-sitegatsby-starter
TryGhost/Casper
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
The default theme for Ghost
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 28 commits, 21 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aileen primarily contributed to the front-end design and functionality of the Casper theme. Their work included fixing CSS styling issues, such as font sizes and word-wrap for long links, and implementing features like infinite scroll for improved user experience. They also addressed minor bugs and made improvements to the theme's overall aesthetics and responsiveness by removing old body classes.
publishingstatic-siteghost-themenunjucksghost
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