Ariella Vu
Senior Software Engineer II at MetaMask
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAriella Vu is a Senior Software Engineer II with eight years of experience building resilient web and extension-based applications, currently advancing secure UX and browser-extension architecture at MetaMask. She blends full-stack skills with a strong front-end focus—contributing UI/UX improvements, component refactors, and tests to high-profile open-source projects like the MetaMask extension. Ariella has led cross-cutting efforts such as Sign-in with Ethereum (SIWE) integration, Manifest V3 service-worker robustness, and complex pricing/packaging restructures that required syncing product, billing, and client platforms. She’s comfortable shipping full lifecycle features—from designing mock smart contracts to validate transaction payloads to implementing storybook-driven component testing. Notably, she pairs security-minded engineering with developer experience improvements (jest-in-browser docs, service-worker lifetime tactics), and has a track record of mentoring and community engagement at major Ethereum events.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science at University of California, Davis3-week Summer Course Forensic Science, 3-week Summer Course Forensic Science at Brown University
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
sc9
scs9
testing8
storybook8
extension-functions7
ethereum7
extension-methods7
c-extension7
whitespace6
html6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MetaMask/metamask-extension
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
:globe_with_meridians: :electric_plug: The MetaMask browser extension enables browsing Ethereum blockchain enabled websites
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2097 reviews, 83 commits, 469 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ariella primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience within the MetaMask browser extension. Their work included updating UI elements such as color schemes, converting components to functional components, refactoring existing code, and incorporating new UI features like ActionableMessage for displaying warnings and updating the back button in the settings page. They also contributed to implementing token import functionalities and made improvements to the transaction decoding component. Additionally, the user added storybook controls and test cases for enhanced component testing and development.
dapp-developersethereumweb3bravemetamask
digiwand/personal-site-v1
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:508 commits, 101 PRs, 179 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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