Monica Dinculescu
Freelance Software Engineer at Meownica Studio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMonica Dinculescu is a freelance software engineer in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building front-end systems, web components, and creative ML-enabled web applications. She has been a core contributor to Polymer and related webcomponents projects and led Magenta.js at Google Research, shipping interactive music and art demos that bridge machine learning and user experience. Comfortable across full-stack and UX-driven work, she repeatedly modernized libraries and polyfills to improve performance, accessibility, and bundle size. Monica also advises startups, public sector orgs, and nonprofits, and runs Meownica Studio—bringing an artist’s sensibility to technical product design. Known in open source as “your favorite developer’s favourite developer,” she combines deep platform advocacy with hands-on craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at McGill University
Github Skills (36)
javascript10
ui-components10
css10
polymer10
user-interface10
web-components10
ui-design10
twitter-api10
uid10
front-end-development10
polyfills10
html10
custom-element10
nodejs10
documentation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
magenta/magenta-js
Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
Magenta.js: Music and Art Generation with Machine Learning in the browser
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 134 commits, 339 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Monica primarily focused on improving the documentation for the JavaScript library. The changes included fixing typos and wording, adding files to the .gitignore, and regenerating the documentation. These changes improved the clarity and accessibility of the documentation for users of the library. Further, the user added a MIDI visualizer to the demos, improving the user's ability to understand and play with MIDI files in the browser.
machine-learning
notwaldorf/tiny-care-terminal
Apr 2017 - Jan 2020
💖💻 A little dashboard that tries to take care of you when you're using your terminal.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:113 commits, 45 PRs, 77 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Monica primarily focused on developing and enhancing the frontend terminal dashboard. They implemented features for displaying tweets from various accounts, including integrating a party parrot animation for one account. The user also integrated git-standup for displaying recent commit history, including the number of commits and implemented weather information. They also worked on refactoring the code and adding a configuration file.
dashboardterminalcarecli
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