Erika Heidi
Developer Experience Engineer at Chainguard, Inc
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolErika Heidi is a Developer Experience Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building developer tools, writing technical content, and advocating for secure software practices. Based in The Hague and originally from Brazil, she blends software engineering and technical writing to make complex systems approachable—most recently creating content to help secure software supply chains at Chainguard. Her background spans developer advocacy and senior technical writing at DigitalOcean and Sourcegraph, plus practical backend work like contributing core command registry and controller logic to an open-source PHP CLI framework. Erika is comfortable across PHP, Ruby, DevOps topics and developer workflows, and she repeatedly turns deep technical work into clear, high-impact documentation and tutorials. Colleagues value her ability to bridge engineering and community, and she has a track record of improving user experience by surfacing better error handling and clearer operational guidance.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Technologist, Advertising / Marketing, Technologist, Advertising / Marketing at Fatec PB
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
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Github Skills (8)
command-line-tool10
web-framework10
php10
cli10
command-line10
macos6
laravel6
gd6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
minicli/minicli
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
A minimal framework for command-line applications in PHP. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/hY5UNC4XPf
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 17 reviews, 71 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Erika contributed significantly to the core structure of the command-line framework. They implemented the initial command controllers and a command registry to manage commands and controllers, laying the foundation for the application's command-line interface functionality. The user refactored code, moving the `getCallable` method to the `CommandRegistry` class. Furthermore, the user updated the application to display exception messages, improving the user experience.
command-linediscordphpclicommand-line-tools
minicli/action-contributors
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
GitHub Action to dynamically update CONTRIBUTORS file
Contributions:6 releases, 21 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
continuous-testingrelease-managementupdatepull-requestcontinuous-integration
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