Flarnie Marchan
Staff Software Engineer at Chegg Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFlarnie Marchan is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building high‑impact web products and leading front-end teams, currently driving TypeScript infrastructure and UI standards at Chegg. She came up through Facebook where she contributed to core React projects—co-maintaining Draft.js and improving Relay and React internals—bringing deep expertise in React, state management, and performance-sensitive UI work. Known for turning greenfield initiatives into stable, revenue-generating products, she led efforts that supported massive usage growth and helped establish company-wide UI roadmaps and career ladders. A hands-on engineer who still ships code, she also maintains popular open-source components (e.g., react-waypoint) and prioritizes accessibility, testing, and developer ergonomics.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Art Education and Social Justice, B.A., Art Education and Social Justice at Hampshire CollegeApp Academy
Github Skills (13)
component-development10
css10
relayer10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
type-definition10
react10
relay10
lifecycle10
event-handling9
testing9
npm8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/draft-js
Sep 2016 - Aug 2018
A React framework for building text editors.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 121 commits, 237 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Flarnie contributed primarily to improving the user interface and examples for the Draft.js library. Their work involved adding CSS styles for tables in the documentation, updating and fixing examples related to links, media, and entities to align with newer syntax, and addressing issues with the editor's behavior, particularly around Android 5.1 and text insertion. Furthermore, they updated the CSS constants and added props for disabling auto-correct features to improve user experience. They also worked on improving the example's functionality.
contenteditabletext-editorsreacttextareawysiwyg
facebook/react
Aug 2016 - Jul 2018
The library for web and native user interfaces.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 118 commits, 238 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Flarnie primarily worked on improving the React library's internal event handling and component rendering. They added and modified type definitions for event plugins and related types, enhancing the type safety of the codebase, and contributed to the warning system for common React errors, such as duplicate keys. Furthermore, the user addressed multiple issues with rendering by resolving errors, and added a test case for a scenario when rendering into a container that has been manually updated.
user-interfacereactjavascript-libraryjavascriptdeclarative
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