Hannah Shaw
Frontend Developer Experience Lead at Mercury
Burlington, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolHannah Shaw is a Frontend Developer Experience Lead with nine years of software engineering experience, currently shaping developer tooling and frontend workflows at fintech company Mercury from Burlington, VT. She brings deep expertise in JavaScript and the React ecosystem, pairing hands-on engineering with people leadership to streamline how teams build and ship UI. Hannah's background spans freelance contract work, open-source contributions—such as refactoring and improving Java exercises and tests on the Exercism track—and product-facing roles that require both technical polish and clear developer documentation. With a BA in Economics & Philosophy, she blends analytical thinking and user-centered design, and she has a track record of improving code flexibility and test robustness behind the scenes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics & Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics & Philosophy at University of Vermont
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/java
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Exercism exercises in Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Hannah primarily focused on refactoring existing code within various Java exercises of the Exercism track. Their work involved removing the `final` keyword from class declarations across multiple exercises, suggesting an effort to increase flexibility or allow for inheritance. They also implemented and corrected an exercise involving a circular buffer, including adding test cases and addressing issues with read/write operations. Finally, they updated the circular buffer test code by switching from `assertEquals` to `assertThat` to mitigate potential autoboxing/unboxing bugs.
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vivshaw/vivshaw-rewrite
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
refresh of my website
Contributions:4 PRs, 70 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
gatsbyreactstyled-systemnetlify-cmsrefresh
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