Kara Stubbs
Senior Frontend Engineer at 345 Global
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKara Stubbs is a Senior Frontend Engineer with nine years of cross-stack experience, currently building user-focused interfaces at 345 Global after four impactful years at Rasa where she led migrations to GraphQL and added real-time collaboration to legacy webapps. She specializes in TypeScript, React, Node.js and has production Python experience, pairing pragmatic engineering with user empathy to tackle customer-managed NLP and other complex problems outside big-tech solutions. A proven open-source contributor, Kara has enhanced libraries like spectacle and urql and was a core contributor to runpkg, showing a knack for improving developer UX as well as product UI. She volunteers with NodeGirls and Codebar, speaks on strongly-typed JavaScript and Svelte, and brings a background in biotech law and biochemistry that sharpens her product thinking and attention to regulatory and ethical considerations.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Laws (LLM) Biotechnology Law and Ethics, Law, Master of Laws (LLM) Biotechnology Law and Ethics, Law at The University of SheffieldBiochemistry BSc (hons), Biochemistry, Biochemistry BSc (hons), Biochemistry at University of Kent
English
Github Skills (16)
presenter10
presentation-layer10
javascript10
presentationml10
styled-components10
slide10
react10
jsx10
transition10
ui-design9
responsive-design9
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
documentation7
graphql7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/spectacle
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
A React-based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax that gives you the ability to live demo your code.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 17 PRs, 53 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kara primarily focused on enhancing the presentation library's functionality, transitioning slide display and transition logic. They refactored code to utilize React hooks, implemented React Spring transitions, and added custom transition effects to the slide component. The user also integrated styled-components, added proptypes, and fixed various animation issues. Furthermore, the user contributed to the addition of table functionality and printing/export features.
keynotereactpresentationjavascriptspectacle
urql-graphql/urql
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
The highly customizable and versatile GraphQL client with which you add on features like normalized caching as you grow.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 4 branches in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kara primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the `urql` documentation site. They implemented and styled React components using `styled-components`, including the header, hero section, features section, and more open source components. They also worked on mobile responsiveness, badge fixes, and button styling to improve the overall user experience. Furthermore, they added a copy button for the NPM install command.
graphql-clientnormalizedurqlexchangecomplex-apps
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