Maria Semple
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Posit PBC
Canada
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Top SchoolMaria Semple is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Canada with eight years of experience leading cross-functional teams and shipping production-quality software. She progressed through engineering and management roles at Posit PBC, driving product and team growth while contributing hands-on to the RStudio IDE as a full-stack developer—notably improving theme support and UI/theme RPCs that bridge front-end and R API server logic. Earlier work at Simba Technologies sharpened her systems and protocol expertise through cross-platform ODBC drivers, authentication (OAuth2, Kerberos), high-performance numeric algorithms, and mentoring engineers. Maria combines a strong academic foundation in mathematics and computer science with practical experience in maintainable, reusable components and a track record of improving developer-facing tools.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (7)
theme-development10
front-end-development10
back-end-development10
javascript9
css9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rstudio
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:254 reviews, 1168 commits, 235 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Maria contributed to refactoring and improving the RStudio IDE, specifically focusing on theme support and user interface enhancements. They made significant changes to the front-end, including UI elements like adding buttons, file dialog integrations, and managing visual components within the preferences pane for improved theme management. The user also modified the back-end, adding server-side functionality to handle theme requests, as well as implementing RPCs for managing and customizing themes through the R API.
integratedrstudiointegrated-development-environmentidedevelopment-environment
rstudio/rstudio-launcher-plugin-sdk
May 2019 - Feb 2022
The RStudio Launcher Plugin SDK is a software development kit used to create plugins that integrate orchestration tools with the RStudio Job Launcher.
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 1252 commits in 2 years 9 months
development-kitorchestrationrstudiosdklauncher
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