Erika Tidwell
Software Engineer at PayPal
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErika Tidwell is a Full-Stack Software Engineer based in New York with five years of professional experience and a creative foundation as a licensed massage therapist and BFA illustrator. She transitioned into tech via General Assembly’s intensive software engineering immersive and has shipped production work at PayPal after contracting through TEKsystems, bringing user-focused design sensibilities to engineering problems. Her background in illustration and client-facing care roles informs a strong empathy for end users and a knack for clear, maintainable interfaces. Comfortable across front-end stacks (React) and collaborative accelerator environments, she combines visual thinking with disciplined software practices to move projects from prototype to production. An unusual blend of hands-on healing, visual storytelling, and engineering gives her a unique perspective on product experience and team collaboration.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, Software Engineering Immersive, Graduate Certificate, Software Engineering Immersive at General AssemblyAssociate of Occupational Studies, Massage Therapy, Associate of Occupational Studies, Massage Therapy at Swedish Institute College of Health SciencesBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Illustration, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Illustration at School of Visual Arts (SVA)
Github Skills (19)
paypal10
checkout10
javascript10
messaging10
popup10
typescript10
iframe10
sdk10
paypal-buttons10
payment10
credit10
obsolete10
square10
react9
angular8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
erikacolette29/paypal-messaging-components
Nov 2021 - Jan 2025
PayPal JavaScript SDK - messaging components
Contributions:360 pushes, 71 branches in 3 years 2 months
javascriptsdkpaypalmessagingtypescript
Cinque-Web-Development/nasa-reimagined
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:1 review, 28 PRs, 69 pushes in 21 days
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