Gina Chiodo
Principal Software Engineer at Shutterstock
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGina Chiodo is a Principal Software Engineer based in New York with 19 years of experience building front-end systems and mentoring teams at scale, currently driving engineering efforts at Shutterstock. Her background blends deep software engineering with linguistics and teaching—she holds advanced degrees in computer science and linguistics and has multiple teaching and instructional roles early in her career. Gina contributes to open-source front-end projects, improving interactive data visualization and in-browser audio recording libraries, with practical commits that strengthen tests, dependency health, and UI/UX. She pairs a strong attention to stability (notably adding targeted test coverage to graphing components) with hands-on UI polish, icon integration, and audio stream handling. Comfortable shipping production features and refining developer-facing libraries, she brings a rare mix of product-minded front-end craft and academic rigor.
19 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
DESS Computer Science and Software Engineering, DESS Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia UniversityMA Linguistics & Cognitive Science, MA Linguistics & Cognitive Science at University of DelawareUpward Bound Math & Science Summer Program, Upward Bound Math & Science Summer Program at University of Maine
English, French, Urdu
Stackoverflow
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2answers
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Github Skills (22)
uitest10
montage10
javascript10
ui-components10
testing10
charts10
css10
audio-processing10
web-audio-api10
front-end-development10
html10
js10
gui-testing10
ui-testing10
font-awesome9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Audior/Recordmp3js
Dec 2014 - Aug 2015
Record MP3 files directly from the browser using JS and HTML
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
Contributions summary:Gina primarily worked on the front-end components of the project, enhancing the user interface for audio recording and playback. Their contributions include implementing UI elements with HTML and JavaScript, integrating the FontAwesome library for icons, and refining the visual presentation with CSS styling. They also addressed issues related to audio context initialization, audio stream handling, and added features for converting audio to MP3.
browsermp3javascriptaudiomp3-files
shutterstock/rickshaw
Mar 2016 - Mar 2020
JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive real-time graphs
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 105 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Gina primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, as evidenced by their commits upgrading dependencies and adding tests. Their work involved modifying existing files and enhancing test coverage for the Y-axis of the graph. The commits focus on improving the library's functionality and ensuring its stability through comprehensive testing.
real-timechartssvgjavascriptgraphs
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