Melissa Cherry
Software Engineer at Adobe
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Cherry is a software engineer with eight years of experience building web applications and data-driven UIs, currently contributing to Adobe from Portland, Oregon. She brings a unique blend of library science and engineering—leveraging deep usability, accessibility, and information-architecture instincts honed as a librarian to craft thoughtful, user-centered products. At Puppet she progressed from intern to engineer, leading cross-functional feature work, serving as Scrum Master, and facilitating company-wide diversity efforts. Comfortable across front-end frameworks and design systems, she has a demonstrated knack for turning research and user insights into reusable components and clear product demos for large audiences. Collectedly, her background suggests an appetite for bridging creativity and technology to make complex data and workflows more approachable.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Philosophy, Spanish, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy, Spanish at Denison UniversityMaster of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Academic Librarianship, Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Academic Librarianship at Kent State University
Spanish, Japanese, French
Github Skills (10)
user-experience10
puppet10
react-components9
accessibility8
react7
wai-aria7
ui-components7
experiences6
puppet-enterprise3
react-component-library2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
melcherry98/deployment-test
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
melcherry98/bookfinder-test
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 3 days
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