Jennifer Thakar
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Thakar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience based in San Francisco, currently building infrastructure for Sass/CSS at Google. She combines production work on core tooling—such as contributions to the reference Dart Sass implementation and the Sass website—with improvements to linting tooling in projects like Stylelint. Her background as a long-time UC Berkeley CS instructor and head TA shows deep experience mentoring, designing course infrastructure, and managing engineering-oriented teams. At Google she’s also worked on Ads Traffic Quality signal collection, showing fluency across frontend CSS tooling and backend data systems. Notably, she has shipped user-facing CLIs, parsers, REPLs, and a deprecations API for major open-source projects, reflecting strength in developer experience and long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (30)
javascript10
apidoc10
css10
sass10
enforcement10
postcss10
api10
conventions10
linter10
linting10
dart10
documentation10
cli10
naming-conventions10
expressions9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sass/sass-site
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Sass Website
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:96 reviews, 17 commits, 143 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jennifer primarily contributed to the documentation of the Sass website. They updated the documentation for the module migrator, including details about new features, command-line options, and dependency loading. Additional documentation updates included adding information on configuring modules through imports, the namespace migrator, and the division migrator, alongside fixing a parameter range in color.change documentation and correcting a duplicate header in the string documentation.
sass
sass/dart-sass
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
The reference implementation of Sass, written in Dart.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:328 reviews, 84 commits, 189 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Jennifer contributed to the core functionality and tooling of the Dart Sass project. Their work included improving the portability of the package script, fixing a bug in the color serialization for compressed mode, adding parsers for expressions and variable declarations, and implementing an interactive SassScript REPL. They also added support for evaluating individual expressions and made multiple updates to the command-line interface and other parts of the project to enhance the user experience and maintainability.
dartsasscss-preprocessordart-sass
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