Fara Woolf is a software engineer with nine years of experience building polished front-end experiences and full-stack features for blockchain and consumer products, currently working at the Ethereum Foundation. She has a strong UI/UX sensibility rooted in an earlier career in architecture and design, which shows up in thoughtful component refactors and UX-focused enhancements like tooltips and asset display logic for the Leather browser extension. Her background spans startups and products—from cultivation management and sports analytics to developer tools for the Stacks ecosystem—demonstrating adaptability across domains and platforms. An active contributor to open-source projects, she’s implemented account and token logic alongside React UI improvements in leather-io/extension. Based in New York, she blends design-led thinking with practical engineering, and her GitHub tagline “lowercase snarks” hints at a wry, pragmatic style in code and collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Software Development (Ruby on Rails), Full-Stack Software Development (Ruby on Rails) at Omaha Code School
Remote Immersive, Full-Stack Software Development (JavaScript), Remote Immersive, Full-Stack Software Development (JavaScript) at Fullstack Academy
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Architecture, Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Architecture at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Product-Architecture and Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Product-Architecture and Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
Contributions:2097 reviews, 443 commits, 898 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Fara primarily contributed to front-end component development and UI updates, incorporating features like displaying asset balances, token transfers, and creating account-related functionality within the Leather browser extension. They focused on improving the user experience by adding tooltips, enhancing display logic for various assets, and refactoring components for improved clarity and efficiency. These changes involved working across both front-end React components (asset-item.tsx, asset-row.tsx) and back-end store/account logic (tokens.ts, accounts/index.ts).
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 5 months
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Fara Woolf - Software Engineer at Ethereum Foundation