Awjin Ahn
Founding Product Engineer at GlobeCommerce
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolAwjin Ahn is a Founding Product Engineer based in Berkeley with 11 years of experience building product-focused software across startups and large tech companies, including Google. He blends front-end UX sensibilities with back-end systems work—evidenced by contributions to the reference Sass compiler where he improved compiler error handling and test coverage for subtle language semantics. Comfortable shipping product features and fixing deep technical debt, Awjin has moved between hands-on design engineering roles and founding-stage product work at GlobeCommerce and previous self-employed ventures. His background in computer science and cognitive science from Swarthmore informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to engineering decisions. Known for tightening compilers and tooling, he brings an uncommon attention to developer experience as part of product quality.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science Cognitive Science at Swarthmore College
Korean, English
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Github Skills (10)
error-handling10
sass10
compiler-design10
dart10
test-automation9
accessibility6
css6
javascript6
slate6
jquery6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sass/dart-sass
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
The reference implementation of Sass, written in Dart.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:118 reviews, 9 commits, 58 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Awjin primarily contributed to the Dart Sass project by addressing bugs and improving the error handling within the Sass compiler. Their work included fixing arity errors in overloaded functions, enhancing error messages to pinpoint the call site in mixins and functions, and reverting the addition of mathematical functions. The commits show the user's focus on compiler internals and ensuring correct behavior for Sass language features. This user also implemented improvements to the test suite by adding test cases for error scenarios in functions and mixins.
sassdart-sasscssdartcss-preprocessor
Awjin/guten-type
Dec 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:79 commits, 85 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
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