Monica Dinculescu
Freelance Software Engineer at Areto Labs
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 (13)
Github contributions (5)
PolymerElements/paper-input
Apr 2015 - Sep 2018
A Material Design text field
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:48 releases, 343 commits, 244 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Monica primarily contributed to the development of UI components for the paper-input library. They fixed layout classes, addressing issues within paper-input-container. Furthermore, the user added a disabled property to paper-input and paper-autogrow-textarea, and implemented support for placeholder text. The contributions also included enabling manual validation and implementing features such as prefixes and suffixes, showcasing a focus on enhancing user experience.
materialmaterial-designfieldtext-fieldpolymer
Polymer/pwa-starter-kit
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Starter templates for building full-featured Progressive Web Apps from web components.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:364 commits, 39 PRs, 51 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Monica primarily worked on the front-end of the project, focusing on implementing and refining UI components. They made several commits related to modifying and structuring UI elements, integrating accessibility best practices and adding visual enhancements using CSS. The commits demonstrate a good understanding of component design, CSS styling, and UI structure.
full-featuredreactlit-elementweb-componentsweb-apps
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