Melina Sparks
Full Stack Engineer at Wild Cranberry Rentals
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelina Sparks is a Full Stack Software Engineer with eight years of experience building user-focused web and native apps, including significant front-end contributions to Outlook Mail and Calendar at Microsoft that reached hundreds of millions of users. She pairs strong React and TypeScript expertise with growing back-end skills (NodeJS, GraphQL) and has shipped performance and UX improvements across web, UWP, and iOS platforms. An active contributor to Microsoft’s roosterjs editor, she implemented list handling, markdown formatting, and table resizing enhancements that improved rich-text authoring. Melina is also an entrepreneur and tradeswoman who founded Wild Cranberry Rentals, applying product mindset and operational rigor to grow revenue and customer satisfaction. She enjoys mentoring and cross-functional collaboration, having led onboarding and training initiatives that accelerated team delivery. Curious by nature—she once reprogrammed a garage door as a kid—she brings practical problem-solving and an iterative, user-centered approach to building software.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science with Distinction, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science with Distinction at University of VictoriaBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaLevel C Training Certification Welding, Level C Training Certification Welding at Vancouver Island University
Github Skills (11)
html10
dom-manipulation10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
testing9
markdown-it9
markdown9
css5
react4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/roosterjs
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
roosterjs is a framework-independent javascript rich text editor.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 52 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Melina primarily contributed to the user interface of the rich text editor framework. They focused on implementing and fixing features related to lists, including modifications to the underlying DOM structure and test cases for lists. The user also added and integrated markdown functionality, specifically features for bold, italics, strikethrough, and inline code formatting within the editor. Finally, they made updates and improvements to the table resizing functionality.
javascriptrich-text-editor
melvsparks/roosterjs
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
roosterjs is a framework-independent javascript rich text editor.
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
javascriptindependentrich-text-editorrich-texttext-editor
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