Nataliya Sayenko
Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNataliya Sayenko is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of front-end experience, currently building user-facing systems at The New York Times. She specializes in React and Node, with a strong focus on accessibility (a11y), web performance, and collaborative practices like pair programming. Her contributions to prominent open-source projects include UI improvements and robust input validation for the Privacy Badger browser extension, demonstrating attention to both privacy-friendly design and resilient front-end code. Nataliya has a track record across startups and studios—Supergreat, Milkshake Studio, and WILLIAMS NEW YORK—where she shipped polished interfaces and performance-minded features. Collected at NYU, her background combines practical product work with a curiosity for new technologies and incremental improvements that make interfaces more usable and secure.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Bachelors at New York University
Russian, English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (7)
google-chrome-extension10
webextension10
javascript10
chrome-extension10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
EFForg/privacybadger
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Nataliya primarily focused on enhancing the user interface for the options page within the Privacy Badger browser extension. Their work involved implementing validation for the site whitelisting form, ensuring that user-provided URLs are correctly formatted. They refactored and optimized the code by replacing regular expressions and string slicing with more efficient methods like `startsWith` and `endsWith`. This effort improved the robustness and usability of the whitelisting feature.
firefoxbrowserprivacyjavascriptwebextension
nicoleholly/DataVisualization
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:61 commits, 48 pushes in 25 days
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