Natasha Umer
Software Engineer at GitHub
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNatasha Umer is a software engineer at GitHub with a decade of experience blending full-stack development and media production. She combines a background in film, biology, and journalism with hands-on expertise in JavaScript, React, Node, and PSQL to build thoughtful, user-facing components and systems. Her open-source contributions include improving UI components and test coverage for GitHub’s Primer design system, reflecting an attention to design systems and maintainable front-end architecture. Prior roles producing video series and writing for BuzzFeed, Reddit, and TED cultivated a strong narrative sense that she applies to product UX and documentation. She also teaches and mentors—having been a CS TA and a software engineering fellow—bringing a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to engineering teams. Based in New York, Natasha is equally comfortable shipping production-ready code and shaping how technical stories are told.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at Recurse CenterSoftware Engineering Fellow, Software Engineering Fellow at NYC Tech Talent PipelineFilm and Media, Biology, Film and Media, Biology at University of California, Irvine
English, Spanish, emoji
Github Skills (7)
ruby-rails10
rails10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
viewcomponent10
ruby10
minitest9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
primer/view_components
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
ViewComponents for the Primer Design System
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 43 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Natasha primarily contributed to the development of Primer ViewComponents, focusing on UI components within the Primer Design System. Their work included adding support for border margins, implementing tests, and refactoring existing code to improve the component's functionality and structure. The user also updated the gem version and added stories for different UI components.
primerrailsviewcomponentsprimer-designruby
natashaU/Go-Practice-Part-1
May 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
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