Linda Fernsel
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarLinda Fernsel is a Berlin-based software engineer, educator, and founder with 12 years of experience building accessible, user-focused front-end experiences. She combines hands-on UI development with a passion for teaching, contributing practical improvements—like accessibility attributes and layout fixes—to high-profile open-source projects such as the Scratch GUI and web client. Known for tackling visual and interaction bugs, Linda improves usability through careful component tweaks, responsive resizing features, and attention to translation and CI workflows. Her work reflects a blend of product-minded engineering and pedagogy, making complex interfaces clearer for both users and contributors. Less obvious: she often targets small, high-leverage fixes that reduce translator workload and improve long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
html10
accessibility10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
react10
ui-components10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
scratchfoundation/scratch-www
May 2017 - Oct 2018
Standalone web client for Scratch
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:138 commits, 49 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Linda primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Scratch website. Their work involved adding and modifying content on the credits page, fixing layout issues, and making names on the credits page non-translatable to reduce work for translators. Furthermore, they addressed and fixed errors related to the Travis CI, and added alt tags to images for accessibility purposes, improving the overall user experience and accessibility of the platform. They also updated some existing components.
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scratchfoundation/scratch-gui
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Graphical User Interface for creating and running Scratch 3.0 projects.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 11 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Linda primarily contributed to the UI of the Scratch GUI, focusing on improving existing components and fixing visual issues. They fixed the border color of the stage selector, implemented a resizing functionality for the title field, and addressed styling issues within the menu bar. The user also updated the language selector to set the `lang` attribute, improving accessibility. Additionally, they addressed a bug related to loading projects directly.
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