Eden Zimbelman
Open Source Engineer at Slack
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEden Zimbelman is an Open Source Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable developer tools and APIs, currently contributing to Slack's open source efforts from San Francisco. With a BS in Computer Science and a Mathematics minor from Cal Poly SLO, Eden focuses on back-end robustness—recently improving Slack's Node SDK web-api by hardening file uploads, token handling, and adding runtime diagnostics to the CLI. Comfortable in both product and tooling contexts, they blend practical engineering with a developer-first perspective that emphasizes observability and repeatable workflows. Outside work, Eden balances code with coffee, math, and music, bringing a thoughtful, community-minded approach to open source collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
java, python, html, css, javascript, php, mysql
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Github Skills (20)
api-design10
typescript10
api10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
nodejs9
webapi9
javascript8
testing7
oauth7
pip6
html6
macos6
arraylist6
php6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
slackapi/node-slack-sdk
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Slack Developer Kit for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 109 reviews, 114 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Eden primarily contributed to the web-api package, enhancing functionality related to file uploads and token handling. They fixed issues in file upload processes by incorporating missing types and sharing tokens across upload jobs. The user also introduced a doctor hook to return runtime versions, expanding the CLI's capabilities. These modifications suggest a focus on improving the API's robustness and providing better tooling for developers.
websocketsnode-jsdeveloper-kitslack-botwebsocket
slack-samples/bolt-python-custom-step-template
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
A template for building automations with Bolt for Python
Contributions:16 reviews, 9 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
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