Jenna Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Scroll
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJenna Smith is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building polished, accessible front-end experiences across startups and agencies. She has progressed from early front-end roles to senior engineering positions at companies like Fathom, Modulz, and currently Scroll, blending UX sensibility with robust engineering practices. Jenna contributes to prominent open-source work — notably enhancing Radix UI Primitives with new React components, accessibility tests, and unit coverage — demonstrating attention to both developer ergonomics and inclusive design. Her toolkit spans modern React, TypeScript, GraphQL/Apollo, React Native and legacy frameworks, enabling her to ship production features and refinements across diverse stacks. Known for turning design-focused requirements into well-tested, styled components, she brings both hands-on implementation and a strong accessibility mindset to product teams. Colleagues rely on her to raise quality through testing, styling discipline, and pragmatic component architecture.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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40answers
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Github Skills (18)
accessibility10
javascript10
ui-components10
testing10
component-library10
react10
jquery9
ui-design9
jquery-ui9
jquery-selectors6
datepicker6
html6
angularjs6
box-shadow6
responsive-design6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
radix-ui/primitives
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Radix Primitives is an open-source UI component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps. Maintained by @workos.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:874 reviews, 267 commits, 251 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jenna contributed extensively to the UI component library, implementing and testing new components such as `Alert` and `Collapsible`. Their work involved developing React components, writing unit tests using a testing framework and adding accessibility tests to ensure that components are accessible. The user also added styling to the components. The user's focus was clearly on enhancing the functionality and quality of the UI library, by adding features, providing test coverage, and improving accessibility.
radix-uireactaccessible-designaccessibleui-component
tokenami/tokenami
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
CSS-in-JS reinvented for scalable, typesafe design systems. A modern approach to just-in-time atomic CSS using CSS variables—no bundler required.
Contributions:1 release, 18 reviews, 367 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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