Kiara Contreras
Senior Software Engineer at HubSpot
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKiara Contreras is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience crafting scalable front-end experiences, currently building feature-rich products at HubSpot. She brings a strong React background honed across The Washington Post, DPLA, and consumer brands like S'well, pairing user-focused design with performance-minded engineering. Kiara mentors engineers, drives architectural decisions, and has led high-impact launches—most notably DPLA’s widely attended Black Women's Suffrage Collection site. Comfortable across full-stack tooling from PHP/Laravel to Next and Cypress, she blends newsroom-grade collaboration with product-driven delivery. Based in Denver, she combines a communicator’s perspective from a BA in Communication and Media Studies with hands-on technical execution.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certification Web Development Immersive, Certification Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Communication and Media Studies at Queens College
Spanish, French, English
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Github Skills (11)
rights8
react8
html6
css6
javascript6
bootstrap6
vuejs26
voting6
checkbox6
vuetify6
experiences4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kcontreras01/ReactArticles
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Frontend for Article Search project using NYTimes Articles API
Contributions:6 PRs, 24 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 5 months
apireactnytimesjavascriptfrontend
kcontreras01/ExpressArticles
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Backend for Article Search project using NYTimes Articles API
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
nytimesapibackendnodejs
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