Kara Ebrahim
Frontend Software Engineer at Freshpaint
Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKara Ebrahim is a frontend software engineer with over a decade of experience and 8+ years focused on building fast, accessible, and user-centered web applications using React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Tailwind. She has shipped product features and led projects at startups and scale-ups including HubSpot, Rebuy Engine, and Freshpaint, collaborating closely with designers, engineers, and marketers to balance UX, performance, and SEO. Her background in design, publishing, and technical illustration informs a strong attention to detail in UI/UX, documentation, and developer-friendly front-end architecture. Kara mentors junior developers, integrates AI and ROI tooling into products, and contributes to open-source learning projects—her GitHub work includes front-end and build fixes for a TDD web-dev book. Based in Maine, she brings a rare mix of editorial rigor and hands-on frontend craft to teams shipping customer-facing web experiences.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA English, BA English at Stonehill CollegeMA English, MA English at Boston CollegeCertificate Graphic and Web Design, Certificate Graphic and Web Design at BU Center for Digital Imaging ArtsCertificate Publishing, Certificate Publishing at Boston University
Github Skills (4)
css10
xslt10
front-end-development9
web-development9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hjwp/Book-TDD-Web-Dev-Python
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Book - TDD web dev with Python
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:498 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kara primarily focused on front-end and some backend modifications related to the book's web development project. They modified CSS for code formatting and the table of contents page. The user's contributions included fixing an XSLT oneoff for the preface images and code in sidebar.
web-devpythondevtdd
karaebrahim/mindingyourbusiness
Feb 2015 - Oct 2024
Client website for a bookkeeper in Maine
Contributions:22 PRs, 29 pushes, 25 branches in 9 years 9 months
bookkeeper
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