Michaela Laurencin
Software Engineer at OpenJS Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMichaela Laurencin is a software engineer with eight years of experience building and maintaining cross-platform desktop tooling, currently focusing on Electron at Microsoft where she triages issues, reviews PRs, and ships features that touch both UI and browser internals. A Carnegie Mellon Integrated M.S./B.S. graduate, she’s known for pragmatic bug fixes and refactors—addressing crash modes, null-pointer resilience, Windows file handling, immersive dark mode, and adding an eyedropper tool—showing deep familiarity with native/renderer boundaries. Based in Boston, she represents Electron as a voting member on the OpenJS Foundation Cross-Project Council, blending hands-on engineering with open-source governance. Past internships at Qualcomm and research experience in biomedical materials reveal a multidisciplinary curiosity and an ability to translate hardware-level and scientific problems into robust software solutions.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Madeira SchoolIntegrated M.S./B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Integrated M.S./B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
electron10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
css8
html8
uid8
wp-api8
front-end-development8
winapi8
ui-design8
ws-api8
nodejs7
chromium6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
electron/electron
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
:electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 68 commits, 81 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michaela primarily focused on fixing bugs and refactoring code within the Electron framework. Their contributions include addressing issues related to browser view crashes and null pointer checks in autoresizing browser views, indicating a deep understanding of the framework's internals. They also implemented the eyedropper tool functionality for browser views and made improvements to the window control overlay, demonstrating work on UI and browser features. Furthermore, they corrected Windows file extension generation and incorporated updates for immersive dark mode.
jsc-plus-plusdesktop-appscssjavascript
mlaurencin/electronjs.org-new
Jan 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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