Blesilda Biazon
Software Developer at Public Knowledge Project
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
🤩
RockstarBlesilda Biazon is a Software Developer based in Toronto with nine years of experience building and leading web application teams across academic and publishing domains. She progressed through multiple engineering roles at Cambridge University Press into a Software Development Project Lead, and now contributes full-stack expertise at the Public Knowledge Project. Her open-source work includes maintaining the default theme for the widely used Open Journal Systems, updating front-end libraries and test suites, and modernizing legacy tables and styling—efforts that improve scholarly publishing workflows for many institutions. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, she has a proven track record of shipping UI, test, and migration changes that balance user-facing polish with maintainability. Colleagues value her ability to translate editorial and product needs into reliable technical solutions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, Filipino
Github Skills (9)
ojs10
javascript10
cypress10
jquery10
git8
css6
php5
vue-jsx4
vue4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pkp/ojs
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Open Journal Systems is open source software to manage scholarly journals.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 93 PRs, 27 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Blesilda primarily worked on updating and maintaining the default theme for the Open Journal Systems (OJS) repository. They focused on updating JavaScript libraries like jQuery and chart.js and adjusting related paths within the theme's configuration. Moreover, the user also modified Cypress tests to align with the primary navigation changes. In addition, they contributed to migrating older tables and added styling elements.
journalopen-access
blesildaramirez/pkp-lib
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
The library used by PKP's applications OJS, OMP and OPS, open source software for scholarly publishing.
Contributions:118 pushes, 28 branches in 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.