Natalie Smith is a Frontend Engineer based in Los Angeles with seven years of experience building polished, user-focused interfaces for startups and developer tools. Currently at Coalition and previously at Prefect and Design+Code, she specializes in CSS and component-driven UI work, having improved navigation, layout, and visual details across large projects. Her open-source contributions to Prefect’s UI show attention to developer UX—fixing styling, active states, and rendering quirks in a notable workflow orchestration project. A technical writer as well as a coder, she blends clear communication with meticulous front-end craft to ship maintainable, accessible interfaces.
Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 171 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Natalie primarily contributed to the user interface of the project by modifying CSS and Vue.js components. They focused on styling elements, including syntax highlighting, adding padding and flex-wrap to improve the layout, and fixing drop shadow rendering. Their work also included updating the navigation bar and adding active states for improved user navigation.
1000+ Customizable, animated icons & illustrations. Shape lets you customize the style, colors and border of static & animated icons and illustrations. For the full list of icons/illustrations, please head over to
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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Natalie Smith - Frontend Engineer at Coalition, Inc.