Cathy Sarisky
Certified Ghost Expert at forum.ghost.org
Salem, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCathy Sarisky is a former chemistry professor turned web developer and Certified Ghost Expert with seven years of professional experience building and migrating publishing platforms. She specializes in full-stack Ghost CMS work—theme development, search and social sign-in integrations, calendar/weather automations, and complex data migrations from platforms like WordPress and Substack. An active open-source contributor and forum moderator for Ghost, she has reviewed 110+ i18n PRs and enabled translation and RTL support across core apps, showing a strong focus on internationalization. Her academic background (PhD in Chemistry from Caltech) and lab research give her rigorous analytical skills that she applies to debugging and tooling, while her history founding a hosting company demonstrates practical ops and customer-facing support experience. Based in Salem, Virginia, Cathy combines deep technical proficiency with community leadership and a knack for turning scientific problem-solving into elegant web solutions.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts - BA, Chemistry, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Chemistry at New College of Florida
Github Skills (26)
audience10
cms10
javascript10
web-application10
ghost10
jamstack10
headless-cms10
ember10
journalism10
nodejs10
scanner9
newsletter9
jquery-plugin8
editor7
monorepo7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vess-dev/Napkin
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:559 commits in 16 days
cathysarisky/Ruby-sales
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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