Ola Gasidlo-brändel
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOla Gasidlo-brändel is a senior software engineer and people-first technical leader with 12 years’ experience building user-focused web platforms from startups to large organizations. Based in Berlin, she has held senior engineering and principal roles at Accenture Song and Mozilla, where she specialized in front-end architecture and UX-driven improvements. Her open-source contributions include front-end work on the well-known Firefox Profiler, improving UI behavior, CSS refactors, and complex component fixes that reveal a practical attention to polish and performance. Ola pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and cross-functional collaboration, guiding teams through refactors, rebases, and scalable folder structures. Her background in applied computer science and digital media design gives her a rare blend of technical rigor and visual sensibility. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic and detail-oriented, often surfacing subtle UX issues that materially improve product quality.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mediengestalter digital/print, Mediengestalter digital / print, Mediengestalter digital/print, Mediengestalter digital / print at Hot.sushiAngewandte Informatik, Angewandte Informatik at FH Dortmund
English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, asl
Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
react10
devtools9
ui-design9
profiler9
performance-analysis8
performance-monitor8
redux8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
firefox-devtools/profiler
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
Firefox Profiler — Web app for Firefox performance analysis
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 40 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ola primarily contributed to the Firefox Profiler's front-end development. They focused on UI enhancements, including the removal and refactoring of CSS selectors, which suggests a focus on improving the application's styling and visual presentation. They also rebased the project from master, added folder structures for resources, and implemented fixes related to positioning and the behavior of UI elements, such as the zoom functionality and context menus, further indicating a focus on refining the user interface and user experience. The changes span across various components, CSS and JavaScript, confirming a broad knowledge of the front-end codebase.
firefoxreactgecko-profilerperformance-analysisjavascript
hoodiehq-archive/documentation
May 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:167 commits, 46 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 4 months
javascriptreacttypescripthoodie
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