Frida Casas
Developer at thoughtbot
San Angelo, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrida Casas is a developer with seven years of experience, currently building React Native and full-stack solutions at thoughtbot in San Francisco. She brings a pragmatic focus on code cleanliness and integration, evidenced by contributions to the Hacktoberfest app where she removed unnecessary dependencies and added features like FAQs, meetups, and webinar integrations. Her background spans startup engineering at Raise, an intensive Flatiron School software engineering education, and a prior career teaching classical guitar and piano—an unusual mix that informs patient collaboration and disciplined practice. Comfortable across front-end UI improvements and backend data integration, she prefers shipping clear, maintainable code that improves user workflows. Based in the Bay Area, she combines analytical training in psychology and theoretical physics studies with hands-on product development.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at Northwest Vista CollegeTheoretical and Mathematical Physics, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at edXFull Stack Web Developer, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Developer, Computer Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Github Skills (9)
html10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
css8
javascript6
kramdown6
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Hacktoberfest/hacktoberfest-2020
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Hacktoberfest - App to manage the annual open-source challenge, used for the 2019 & 2020 seasons.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 6 PRs, 12 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Frida's contributions focused on enhancing the Hacktoberfest application's functionality. They removed unnecessary dependencies and debugging tools, demonstrating a focus on code cleanliness. The user integrated features such as FAQs, meetups, and webinars from external sources, suggesting work on data integration and presentation. Furthermore, the user made UI improvements by implementing the details page and header navigation.
cssjavascriptruby
fridaland/InTheFight
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
This is the Gatsby.js application for In The Fight. In The Fight is committed to the advancement of progressive politics that leads to structural change in our current social, political, and economic structures.
Contributions:28 reviews, 39 commits, 21 PRs in 4 months
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