Aster Haven
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Plume Clinic
Strong, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolAster Haven is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building resilient web products at companies like The New York Times, Medium, Segment, and Saleae. She combines deep technical fluency in Node, React, TypeScript, serverless and containerized architectures with a pragmatic focus on human-centered engineering—clear communication, exhaustive documentation, and maintainable, tested code. At Medium and NYT she led cross-team initiatives (stack rewrites, TypeScript trainings, and personalization/newsletter work) that improved developer experience and product quality. An active open-source contributor, she expanded request-snippet generation in the widely used httpsnippet project to better handle multipart form data and Unirest support. Based in Strong, Maine, she pairs rigorous engineering with creative pursuits—building boutique MIDI hardware and tending a garden—which inform a collaborative, empathetic approach to leadership and product design.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Film, Graphic Design, World Studies, Diploma, Film, Graphic Design, World Studies at American Fork High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
json10
javascript10
nodejs10
testing8
ab-testing8
abtest8
asynchronous6
css6
media-queries6
sailsjs6
android6
docker4
dockers4
fest3
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/httpsnippet
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
HTTP Request snippet generator for many languages & libraries
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 3 issues in 1 day
Contributions summary:Aster primarily contributed to the implementation of Node.js request snippet generation. They worked on integrating various features, including headers, cookies, JSON, and form data, into the code generation process. The user also addressed bugs, particularly with multipart form data, and added support for Unirest, expanding the project's capabilities.
http-requestsnippet-generatorsnippetlanguagesrequest
geymed/octostar
Mar 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:140 commits in 3 months
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