Cadence Banulis is a mission-driven frontend developer with 11 years of engineering experience and a strong focus on maintainable, well-tested TypeScript and product-led delivery. She has led cross-functional initiatives at companies like Udacity and Electricity Maps, shipping major migrations, performance fixes, and developer-focused tooling such as a rebuilt API documentation platform and an internal self-serve data export tool. At Electricity Maps she also contributed to the open-source electricitymaps-contrib project, improving UI, social sharing, and chart interactions that helped make CO2 visualization more shareable and engaging. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping front-end features, she blends design sensibility (BA in Literature & Visual Art) with rigorous engineering practices to turn complex product needs into intuitive interfaces. Now based in Copenhagen, she continues to bridge product, advocacy, and engineering to increase user engagement and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Hack Reactor
Bachelor’s Degree Literature & Visual Art, Bachelor’s Degree Literature & Visual Art at Bennington College
The open source repository for Electricity Maps App and data parsers that enables a real-time visualisation of the CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:182 reviews, 75 PRs, 259 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Cadence primarily contributed to the front-end of the Electricity Maps project, focusing on UI improvements and feature implementations within the web application. They fixed tooltip defaults, added social media share tracking and buttons, added an app store banner, and redesigned the toast notifications. Additionally, they implemented chart-related enhancements, including scroll-to functionality and source toggles for the origin chart, along with further UI improvements to chart titles.
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Cadence Banulis - Software Engineer, Advocacy at Electricity Maps