Becca Pepper
Freelance Copywriter at Discount Supplements Ireland
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBecca Pepper is a versatile communications professional and freelance copywriter with 24 years of experience blending marketing, production coordination, and technical open-source contributions. Trained in Advertising and Marketing Communications, she has navigated roles across film and TV production at Apple, Netflix and Warner Bros. while running freelance marketing and copy projects from Los Angeles. Unusually for a copywriter, she also contributes to major open-source Swift projects—helping refactor compiler parsing, enhance SwiftSyntax, and strengthen the Swift driver—bringing a pragmatic, detail-oriented engineering mindset to her writing and content work. Comfortable translating complex technical concepts for broad audiences, she pairs creative storytelling with disciplined QA and process improvements developed from both on-set production and codebase stewardship.
24 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Advertising and Marketing Communications, Bachelor’s Degree, Advertising and Marketing Communications at Institute of Technology, Tallaght
English
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Github Skills (44)
ruby-rails10
stripe10
compiler-development10
string-interpolation10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
rails10
refactor10
ruby10
compiler-design10
dictionary10
parsing10
swift10
refactoring10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
The Swift Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:396 reviews, 68 commits, 651 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Becca primarily contributed to the Swift programming language repository by refactoring code related to the parsing of attributes, specifically focusing on parsing helpers for attributes involving identifiers. They created and used helper functions to simplify parsing and added new error conditions. These changes simplified handling of certain attribute options in the Swift compiler.
swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift
swiftlang/swift-driver
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Swift compiler driver reimplementation in Swift
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 33 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Becca primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `Triple` component, a core part of the Swift compiler driver. They reorganized the code, moved enums and parsing methods, and optimized the handling of triple components. Additionally, the user implemented utilities for interpolation and normalization, enhancing the driver's functionality. The changes indicate a focus on improving the internal workings and maintainability of the compiler driver.
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