Evy Kassirer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEvy Kassirer is a senior full-stack engineer with 12 years of experience building user-focused web applications and platform features across startups and large tech teams in San Francisco. Currently contributing to Zulip’s open-source team chat as a Senior Frontend Engineer, she combines front-end polish with backend data work, shipping UI improvements and storage/features that improve team collaboration. Her background includes impactful platform and API work at Patreon and end-to-end product delivery at Pilot, where she led schema and API design and implemented self-serve onboarding and analytics features. A University of Waterloo CS graduate, Evy’s early internships at Google, Khan Academy, and Asana reflect a strong foundation in accessibility, tooling, and education tech. She’s an active open-source contributor—her Zulip pull requests reveal a willingness to own cross-cutting changes—and prefers email for outreach, hinting at a focused, deep-work approach to collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Honours, Bachelor, Computer Science, Honours at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
react9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
html9
user-interface9
django8
python8
utf6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1511 reviews, 66 commits, 509 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Evy contributed to both the front-end and back-end of the Zulip server and web application, based on the code changes provided. They worked on UI components, including showing error messages and adjusting the interface, and also on backend features like the stream data storage. Their work spans various areas, from JavaScript in the web interface to database interaction and the internals of the application.
pythonweb-applicationcollaborationzulipjavascript
StarConKW/starconkw.github.io
May 2017 - Jan 2019
StarCon website
Contributions:137 commits, 156 PRs, 196 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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