Emma Walker
Tech Lead at Brigit
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmma Walker is a Tech Lead and front-end specialist with eight years of experience building resilient React applications and design systems across web and mobile. She pairs deep expertise in TypeScript, testing (Jest/React Testing Library), and functional patterns with a fundamentals-first approach that prioritizes code quality, performance, and test coverage. At Brigit and prior startups she has driven large repo migrations, raised engineering standards, and mentored junior engineers to improve team delivery. Trained in both design and computer science, she bridges UX and engineering to create polished, user-centered interfaces and animation-driven experiences. Her academic background included machine learning, and she remains curious about applying ML techniques to product problems. Based in New York, she thrives on solving vague, challenging problems and building reusable frontend systems that scale.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma Design, Advanced Diploma Design at Sydney Design SchoolHigher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Pymble Ladies' CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science (minor in Finance), Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science (minor in Finance) at Macquarie University
Github Skills (99)
react-component9
parser9
swing9
datepicker8
dates8
gatsby8
python8
tooling8
frontend8
react8
vite8
dev-server8
storage8
java8
swc7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emmmarosewalker/JobSearchApplication
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
emmmarosewalker/gatsbyTutorial
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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