Liah Martens
Senior Software Engineer at Freighter Studio
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLiah Martens is a Senior Software Engineer based in NYC with over a decade of professional experience building full-stack products in TypeScript, Rust, and C#. She has driven engineering quality at startups and agencies—improving type safety, OpenAPI contracts, and ESM/NPM compliance—while shipping customer-facing features that tied directly to revenue goals. Comfortable across architectures from Kubernetes to serverless, she’s contributed front-end improvements to the popular Tokens Studio Figma plugin, enhancing UX and performance for design-token workflows. A versatile freelancer for clients like Getty Images and Sanity, she pairs product-focused engineering with fast adaptation to diverse codebases. Originally from Belgium and now an NYC e-skateboard commuter, she balances pragmatic engineering with a keen interest in developer experience and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor IT, Information Technology, Bachelor IT, Information Technology at University of AntwerpBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome HogeschoolHigh School Diploma, Information Technology, High School Diploma, Information Technology at SHT TurnhoutBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information Technology at AP Hogeschool AntwerpenPrimary School, Primary School, Primary School, Primary School at Meerpaal
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (15)
uid10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
figma10
html6
transparency6
javascript6
gtk6
cookie6
google-chrome6
embedded-browser6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tokens-studio/figma-plugin
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Official repository of the plugin 'Tokens Studio for Figma' (Figma Tokens)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:282 reviews, 265 commits, 66 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Liah primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Figma Tokens plugin. Their work involved implementing new UI elements, adding features like auto-complete functionality for aliasing and creating and managing themes. The user also addressed bug fixes and improved the performance of token listing and related UI components.
tokensfigma-tokensfigmapluginstyles
LiamMartens/babel-plugin-no-index-imports
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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