Devon Zuegel
Founder & President at Esmeralda Institute
Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevon Zuegel is a founder and product-minded software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-focused products and communities from first principles. She led the creation and growth of GitHub Sponsors to multimillion-dollar ARR and later directed product for GitHub’s Communities, blending research, product design, and engineering to scale social tools like Discussions. As an active open-source maintainer she contributes front-end and mobile improvements to privacy-minded projects such as Logseq and Joplin, and built end-to-end consumer tooling like Small World to map and reconnect people (until API changes shuttered it). Now founding Esmeralda Institute, she’s translating systems-level thinking into a real-world village for car-light, lifelong-learning family living—a thread that ties her civic projects, volunteer housing advocacy, and technical work together.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
markdown10
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
clojure-cli10
clojure10
markdown-it10
android10
mobile10
clojurescript10
ui-design9
notepad8
knowledge-graph8
knowledge-management8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
logseq/logseq
May 2021 - Dec 2021
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: http://trello.com/b/8txSM12G/roadmap
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 72 commits, 23 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Devon contributed significantly to the Logseq project by implementing features and fixing bugs primarily within the frontend codebase. Their work includes adding custom query title styling, incorporating time-related variables for custom datalog queries, and implementing date-related utility functions. They also improved the user interface by increasing icon contrast and updating modal behavior. Furthermore, the user added a calculator command and improved the formatting of the help section to improve user experience.
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laurent22/joplin
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:11 commits, 17 PRs, 85 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Devon primarily focused on enhancing the mobile application aspects of the Joplin note-taking app. Their contributions included implementing a custom editor font and incorporating quick actions for creating new notes and to-dos. The user also worked on integrating a Markdown editor with preview capabilities within the note screen, improving the user experience, and fixing various bugs related to the editor. Moreover, the user made adjustments to the Android build, and they worked on integrating features like quick actions on iOS.
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