Elena Sharma
Developer Enablement Lead at Gusto
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolElena Sharma is a Developer Enablement Lead with 11 years of experience shaping cloud-native platforms, developer documentation, and UI components, currently leading Embedded Payroll enablement at Gusto. She blends engineering and technical writing skills developed at Pivotal/VMware Tanzu and Stripe to turn abstract product visions into test-driven, continuously integrated implementations. Her open-source contributions to Cloud Foundry (cloud_controller_ng) and pivotal-ui show she’s comfortable across backend service behavior and front-end component design, while her docs work on Cloud Foundry and BOSH demonstrates a knack for clarifying complex operational detail. A former engineering manager who started in immersive web development training, she pairs a meticulous, writer’s sensibility with pragmatic coding practices to improve developer experience and ship reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) 3.8 GPA English Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) 3.8 GPA English Language and Literature at Scripps College
Github Skills (18)
bosh10
javascript10
cloud-foundry10
apidoc10
ui-components10
ruby10
component-library10
api10
backend10
react10
documentation10
postgresql9
url-routing9
css9
subdomain8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pivotal-cf/pivotal-ui
Feb 2016 - Jul 2017
Pivotal's design system & component library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 6 PRs, 117 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Elena primarily focused on the development and maintenance of UI components within the `pivotal-ui` repository, a component library. Their contributions included adding and modifying input components, such as `SearchInput` and `BasicInput`. The user also addressed styleguide dependencies to ensure proper functionality of the components. Furthermore, they updated and improved existing React components.
reactpivotaldesign-systemreact-componentscomponent-library
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Sep 2017 - Jul 2021
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 57 PRs, 116 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Elena primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller. Their work focused on refining the start command behavior for applications, specifically reverting changes that caused compatibility issues. The user also made several modifications to internal APIs and processes, including refactoring fetcher paths and enhancing environmental variable group validation. Additionally, the user implemented changes to support better service binding.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
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