Linda Paiste
Senior Frontend Engineer at Basil Systems
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLinda Paiste is a Senior Frontend Engineer in Houston with nine years of experience blending data-driven growth marketing and modern front-end engineering to build user-focused web products. She founded and grew a celebrity fashion site to 500K monthly uniques, pairing SEO, analytics and custom PHP to turn audience insights into features. At Basil Systems she ships React-driven interfaces and at large open-source projects like ml5.js and the p5.js web editor she has improved video/memory handling and modernized components and i18n using React hooks. Comfortable moving between analytics, automation (Python) and front-end code, she brings a rare mix of product instincts, performance-minded engineering, and hands-on open-source contributions.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The Derryfield SchoolBS, Applied Mathematics, BS, Applied Mathematics at Emory University
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Github Skills (38)
javascript10
react-native10
react-hooks10
react-redux10
video-processing10
typescript10
redux-thunk10
redux10
typescript-generics10
front-end-development10
html10
i18next10
react10
localstorage9
nextjs9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
processing/p5.js-web-editor
Jul 2022 - Nov 2024
The p5.js Editor is a website for creating p5.js sketches, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else! You can create, share, or remix p5.js sketches without needing to download or configure anything.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:337 reviews, 174 PRs, 58 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Linda's commits primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the p5.js web editor. They implemented React-Redux hooks in the Toast component and updated the code across multiple pages and components, including AccountView, MobileIDEView, and SignupForm. A significant portion of their work involved using the `useTranslation` hook to improve the i18n (internationalization) of the application, along with component refactoring. The changes reflect a shift towards utilizing modern React practices and improved user interface elements for the editor.
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ml5js/ml5-library
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Friendly machine learning for the web! 🤖
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 50 commits, 65 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Linda primarily contributed to the `ml5-library`, enhancing the `Video` and related classes. They added features like loading video streams and handling various HTML video elements. The commits also involved improving documentation with JSDoc and refactoring the codebase with guard conditions. Furthermore, they implemented memory management improvements for the style transfer features.
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