Monica Powell
Senior Software Engineer at Newsela
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMonica Powell is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building web products that elevate people, currently focused on classroom-facing education technology at Newsela. She brings a strong React/Node/GraphQL/AWS skill set and a track record of shipping UX-forward features—from MeetUp’s paid group flows to NYPL’s Open eBooks web reader. An active open-source contributor, she’s made framework-level improvements to projects like RedwoodJS to harden routing and build UX. Monica also founds and organizes large developer communities (React Ladies / React Robins, 600+ members) and teaches web development at egghead.io, blending engineering with public speaking and technical writing. Her background in data journalism and prior product and UX roles gives her a rare mix of technical depth, communication chops, and user-centered design sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The Lede Program - Data Journalism Certificate for Computational Competency, Data Visualization, The Lede Program - Data Journalism Certificate for Computational Competency, Data Visualization at Columbia University - Graduate School of JournalismBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Barnard College
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
url-routing10
javascript10
redwoodjs10
react10
wpgraphql9
typescript9
typescript-types9
wordpress-graphql9
typescripts9
graphql9
apollo8
jamstack7
backgrounds6
margin6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
redwoodjs/redwood
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
The App Framework for Startups
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 12 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Monica primarily focused on the structure and validation of routes within the RedwoodJS framework. They added checks to prevent invalid route configurations, such as 404 pages nested within private routes. Their contributions also included removing and reverting references to authentication-related features, and updating UI components to utilize the `isPrivate` helper. Additionally, they worked on adding a success message to the build process.
reactprismajamstackgraphqlapollo
M0nica/resources-theme
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
🚧 in-progress Gatsby Theme to display and search collection of resources
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 2 months
gatsbyreactin-progressgatsbyjsgatsby-plugin
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