Laura Kalbag
Educational Content
Bray, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Kalbag is an educational content specialist and co-founder with 11 years of experience shaping privacy-conscious, accessible digital products and communities from Bray, Ireland. She currently produces learning material at Penpot while running the Small Technology Foundation, where she leads the business, speaks on ethical design, and consults on accessibility and privacy. Laura blends hands-on product work—designing websites, maintaining open-source tracker-blocking rules for Better Blocker, and contributing UI and documentation improvements to notable projects like the xstate visualizer—with public-facing education such as livestreams and research-driven blog writing. Her background in graphic and digital design (first-class BA Hons) informs a human-centered approach to technical topics, making complex privacy and UX concepts approachable. Notably, she pairs practical frontend engineering with policy-minded thinking, helping shape privacy-respecting peer-to-peer web research.
11 years of coding experience
Art Foundation, Graphics (Specialism), Art Foundation, Graphics (Specialism) at Reigate School of Art and DesignBA Hons, Graphic Communication (Achieved 1st), BA Hons, Graphic Communication (Achieved 1st) at Bath Spa University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
documentation10
vue9
state-machine9
statechart9
vue-jsx9
state-management9
workflow-engine8
visualizer8
ui-design8
sticky6
php6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
statelyai/xstate
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Actor-based state management & orchestration for complex app logic.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 100 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Laura primarily contributed to the documentation and user interface of the xstate project, focusing on integrating documentation and improving the user experience. They added links to privacy policies and the code of conduct within the documentation's sidebar, improved navigation by integrating new content sections, and updated visualizer URLs. The user also updated several project dependencies and configurations.
workflowstatechartsstate-machineorchestrationmachines
statelyai/docs
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Stately docs for Stately Studio and XState
Contributions:150 reviews, 256 commits, 293 PRs in 6 months
statelydocusaurus
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