Lu Nelson
Member Of Technical Staff at HASH
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLu Nelson is a Member of Technical Staff based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building high-quality frontends and product-focused engineering teams. They specialize in frontend architecture, UX-driven feature development, and data-visualization performance for ML and IoT products, having driven technical strategy and major rebuilds at alcemy and Memfault. Lu has owned web properties and analytics at Rasa, contributed UI and docs improvements to the popular Rasa open-source project (including Google Tag Manager integration and Docusaurus configuration work), and modernized accessibility and developer experience at Blacklane. As a staff engineer they introduced Shape Up workflow practices, rethought hiring and onboarding, and moved teams toward product-engineering cycles that increase ownership. Their background as a frontend designer-developer enables a rare blend of design system thinking and type-safe, high-performance engineering. Multilingual and internationally experienced, Lu brings pragmatic leadership and a design-led technical sensibility to complex web products.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Anthropology at The University of British Columbia
German, French
Stackoverflow
561reputation
502kreached
9answers
4questions
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
docusaurus10
google-tag-manager10
front-end-development10
react10
documentation9
sass6
html6
stylus6
css6
switch-statement6
xhtml6
jquery6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
RasaHQ/rasa
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
💬 Open source machine learning framework to automate text- and voice-based conversations: NLU, dialogue management, connect to Slack, Facebook, and more - Create chatbots and voice assistants
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 102 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Lu primarily contributed to the documentation and user interface elements of the Rasa documentation website. They implemented and integrated Google Tag Manager for analytics purposes by creating a plugin and corresponding client modules. Furthermore, the user made several changes to the Docusaurus configuration files, including theme and plugin adjustments, while also refactoring code related to code block and sidebar rendering.
nlupythonbotspeech-recognitionbotkit
lunelson/ln-sass
Sep 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:311 commits, 183 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 3 months
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