Mina Markham
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMina Markham is a Staff Software Engineer at Slack with 12 years of experience building polished, user-focused front-end systems and leading cross-functional teams. She blends product design sensibility and front-end architecture—skills honed at IBM Design and in her early career as a graphic designer—with deep hands-on JavaScript and UI expertise developed at Slack and during the Hillary for America tech team. Mina founded and grew a Girl Develop It chapter, contributing full-stack improvements to its website and demonstrating a long-standing commitment to community teaching and accessible tech. Known for shipping fast, maintainable prototypes in high-pressure environments, she excels at turning design intent into scalable front-end patterns. Based in San Francisco, she pairs pragmatic engineering with a designer’s eye, making complex interfaces feel simple and human.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Graphic Arts Women's Studies, Bachelor’s Degree Graphic Arts Women's Studies at Syracuse University
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Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
rails10
website-development10
front-end-development10
backend10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
girldevelopit/gdi-website
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
This is the official repository for the Girl Develop It website.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 15 PRs, 40 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mina primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Girl Develop It website. Their work involved implementing new features, such as a code of conduct page and a sponsors page, while also updating existing content. The user also modified the website's navigation, and improved the user interface by updating the about page. Furthermore, the user added volunteer information to chapter pages, fixing email links and fixing small details across the site.
cssjavascriptgirl
minamarkham/gdi-new-site
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:39 pushes, 59 branches in 10 months
reactgirlcssjavascriptre-design
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