Aura Suárez
Senior Frontend Engineer at eduNEXT
Bogota, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolAura Suárez is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Bogotá with eight years of experience building user-focused web applications, and over five years specializing in React and modern frontend toolchains. She has led frontend teams at eduNEXT, contributing notable refactors to the Open edX platform—streamlining legacy pattern libraries and improving frontend maintainability in a widely used open-source LMS. At Globant she delivered component libraries, SEO improvements, and unit-tested features for large clients like Disney and telecom providers using TypeScript, Next.js, Redux and Stencil. Comfortable across full-stack touches and legacy migrations, she blends hands-on coding with mentoring and architectural decision-making. Her background in electronic engineering and early academic work hints at a methodical, measurement-driven approach to solving front-end problems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineer, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronic Engineer, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
English, French
Github Skills (9)
refactoring10
python10
django10
front-end-development9
bootstrap9
bootstra9
mako8
back-end-development8
backend8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
May 2020 - Sep 2020
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 26 PRs, 19 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Aura's primary contribution involves removing the pattern library and related dependencies throughout various parts of the edx-platform codebase. This includes updates to views and templates within the learner dashboard, course experience, and other features. The user also removed instances of `uses_bootstrap` and other related elements, suggesting a refactoring effort to streamline and simplify the codebase. The commits focused on removing deprecated code and streamlining frontend elements.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
Pearson-Advance/frontend-app-institution-portal
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Institution Admin Portal MFE.
Contributions:196 reviews, 127 PRs, 165 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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