Dena Mwangi
Self Employed
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDena Mwangi is a product-focused engineer and leader with 10 years of experience building full-stack systems, growth features, and AI-driven products that scale to millions of users. She has led engineering teams at Honeycomb and Pinterest, shipped monetization and recommendation systems, and contributed front-end work to Pinterest’s Gestalt UI library. Combining an MA in Economics with hands-on software and data experience, she excels at reasoning about incentives, trade-offs, and measurable product impact. Recently she’s focused on responsible, human-centered AI—building conversational and agentic LLM workflows for mission-driven partners like Dev/Color × Gates Foundation and launching 0→1 healthtech and edtech products. As a freelance product engineer based in the DC–Baltimore area, she pairs rapid, production-grade shipping with ethical AI practice and a strong record in growth engineering.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MA Economics, MA Economics at Duke UniversityHackbright AcademyGen AI applications, Gen AI applications at Recurse Center
Swahili, English
Github Skills (8)
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javascript10
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react10
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css9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/gestalt
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
A set of React UI components that supports Pinterest’s design language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 10 PRs, 13 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dena primarily contributed to the development of React UI components, specifically within the context of the Pinterest design language. Their work involved adding new icons and the creation of a new `IconWithTooltip` component, including associated tests and documentation. They also updated an existing `Badge` component to have solid backgrounds and white text.
reactlanguage-designjavascriptreact-ui-componentspinterest
denamwangi/gestalt
Dec 2019 - Dec 2024
A set of React UI components that supports Pinterest’s design language
Contributions:25 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 1 month
reactlanguage-designreact-ui-componentspinterestdesign-system
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