Juliana Peña
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuliana Peña is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in front-end web development, accessibility, and developer productivity tools. She has delivered impact across startups and large teams at Microsoft and Sourcegraph, leading initiatives like streaming search, a design system rollout, and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility work. Comfortable in small, high-impact teams, she blends strong technical chops in TypeScript, React, and Angular with a keen eye for visual design and usability. Juliana is an active open-source contributor, improving front-end UX for notable projects such as the omegaUp contest platform. Based in Redmond, WA, she thrives on building developer-facing experiences that make complex workflows feel simple and delightful.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
highcharts10
jquery9
html9
css9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
omegaup/omegaup
Jan 2012 - Sep 2013
omegaUp automatic programming contest evaluator & arena
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Juliana primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and front-end functionality of the OmegaUp platform. Their work involved the creation of interactive ranking charts within the contest interface. These improvements included adding chart elements, integrating with libraries, and optimizing chart rendering for better user experience. Furthermore, the user made UI changes, like displaying users' usernames in the ranking table.
pythonarenacontest-programmingevaluatorautomatic-programming
limitedmage/winmilk
Sep 2010 - Jul 2011
Contributions:124 commits in 9 months
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