Maria Geller
Senior Software Engineer at Whimsical
Austria
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Top SchoolMaria Geller is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building collaborative, user-facing systems and developer tooling across Europe and New Zealand. She has led teams and technical direction at Pitch, shipping conflict-resolution algorithms and smart formatting for collaborative presentations, and now contributes to product development at Whimsical. Comfortable across Clojure/ClojureScript, JavaScript, and backend services, Maria has a strong history of improving developer workflows—evidenced by maintenance work on the well-known lein-cljsbuild plugin and contributions to the ClojureScript compiler during Google Summer of Code. She holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and combines academic rigor with hands-on product delivery. Colleagues describe her as curious and fast-learning, able to hire and mentor teams while still contributing deep individual code changes. Based in Austria, she brings a cross-cultural perspective from five years working in New Zealand and a track record of turning complex collaboration problems into reliable features.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), IT-Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute
German, English
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Github Skills (8)
clojure10
plugin-development10
dependency-management10
leiningen10
build-automation10
clojure-cli10
clojurescript10
version-control9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
emezeske/lein-cljsbuild
Sep 2015 - Mar 2021
Leiningen plugin to make ClojureScript development easy.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 68 commits, 18 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Maria primarily focused on updating and maintaining the lein-cljsbuild plugin and its associated example projects. Contributions include version bumps, bug fixes (related to build regressions), and general project updates. The user's work involved modifying project configurations across different example projects, updating dependencies, and refactoring code.
clojureclojurescriptleiningenleiningen-plugin
swannodette/mies
Aug 2015 - Jul 2018
Minimal ClojureScript project template
Contributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 11 months
templateclojureclojurescript
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