Emma Hamilton
Developer at Thinkmill
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarEmma Hamilton is a versatile full-stack developer based in Queensland, Australia, with 11 years of experience building and improving developer tools and CMSs. At Thinkmill since 2018 she has focused on shipping robust features and refactors, particularly around image handling and editor UX in content platforms. A prolific open-source contributor, Emma has worked across high-profile projects like Emotion, react-select, Keystone, and Changesets—contributing CI/CLI automation, build and test improvements, and cross-cutting refactors for monorepo tooling. She combines frontend polish (CSS-in-JS, React) with backend automation (GitHub Actions, changelog/versioning tooling), making her strong at improving developer workflows as well as user-facing components. Colleagues rely on her to untangle serialization, access-control, and build complexity while keeping a pragmatic focus on shipping fixes and tests.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (43)
babel610
git10
content-management-system10
github-ci10
javascript10
cms10
css-in-js10
component-development10
open-source10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
cicd10
rollupjs10
content-management10
wordpress-graphql10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Thinkmill/keystatic
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
First class CMS experience, TypeScript API, Markdown & YAML/JSON based, no DB
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:234 reviews, 115 commits, 926 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Emma primarily focused on improving the image field within the keystatic CMS. Their contributions included refactoring the image field code, fixing related issues, and modifying the code to handle image uploads effectively. Furthermore, they addressed and fixed bugs related to the image field, demonstrating their commitment to improving the overall functionality of the CMS.
cmscontent-management-systemjavascriptjsonmarkdoc
emotion-js/emotion
Jun 2017 - Apr 2022
👩🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 177 reviews, 730 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Emma primarily focused on implementing new tests and making changes to the build process within the `emotion-js/emotion` repository, which is a CSS-in-JS library. Their contributions included adding tests for fragment and other miscellaneous changes related to the babel plugin, and creating fixes for issues. These changes involved modifying existing components, refactoring code, and ensuring proper snapshot tests.
compositionreactemotionjs-librarycss
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