Emily Klassen
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolEmily Klassen is a seasoned full-stack web developer with 14 years of experience building robust web and backend systems from Vancouver, Canada. She combines deep expertise in developer tooling, DSLs, NLP, and HCI with a practical focus on accessible UX and maintainable engineering practices. Emily is an active open-source contributor—helping improve TypeScript typings in DefinitelyTyped, enhancing Atom’s tree-view drag-and-drop UX, and hardening the Nx build system and Babel compiler—demonstrating fluency across frontend and backend codebases. Her background spans startups and enterprise APIs, and she brings a knack for syntactically creative languages and developer experience improvements that quietly reduce friction for other engineers.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Outtatown School of Discipleship, Certificate, Outtatown School of Discipleship at Canadian Mennonite UniversityBSc, Computing Science, BSc, Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (39)
nxos10
babel610
atom-editor10
javascript10
npm10
coffeescript10
python10
django10
drag-and-drop10
typescript10
build-system10
type-definition10
compiler-compiler10
typescript-types10
babel-core10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
nrwl/nx
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Build system, optimized for monorepos, with plugins for popular frameworks and tools and advanced CI capabilities including caching and distribution.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 4 commits, 7 PRs in 26 days
Contributions summary:Emily focused on improving the core functionality of the Nx build system. They addressed issues related to output handling in the `print-affected` command to prevent broken JSON output, fixed a problem disabling ts-node warnings and resolved file dependency issues. Furthermore, the user resolved multiple issues with stripping source code and added support for ts-node options in tsconfig files, thereby enhancing the system's robustness and usability.
nx-workspacesworkspacesclijavascriptcypress
forivall/numix-core
Dec 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 11 months
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