Owen Schoppe
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Schoppe is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building full-stack products and design systems that scale to millions of users. He bridges engineering and design—holding an MDes and a BA in sculpture—bringing mathematical rigor and an artist’s sensibility to complex frontend challenges and UX strategy. Owen has led cross-functional work at Salesforce and Aurora Solar, shipping pixel-perfect React UIs, improving CI reliability with Playwright/Cypress utilities, and doubling plan volume through product integrations. He contributes to well-known open-source efforts around Salesforce’s Lightning Design System and Aura developer tools, focusing on accessibility, responsive styling, and tooling that saves teams time. Passionate about climate-focused companies, he combines hands-on engineering across Ruby, Java, C++, and TypeScript with a knack for turning ambiguous problems into elegant, user-centered solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Sculpture, B.A. Sculpture at Bard CollegeMDes User Centered Interaction Design and Design Planning, MDes User Centered Interaction Design and Design Planning at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
system10
uid10
javascript10
user-interface10
salesforce-lightning10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react9
aura-framework9
responsive-design9
accessibility8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce-ux/design-system
Jun 2016 - Feb 2022
Salesforce Lightning Design System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily focused on front-end development within the Salesforce Lightning Design System. Their contributions include fixing layout bugs, adding accessibility features, and improving the UI by adjusting text and button styles. The user also made changes to data table components, including updates to styling and the addition of features like action ribbons and icon tabs to enhance the overall user experience. Furthermore, they addressed code cleanup and optimized existing components for production.
salesforce-lightningcssdesign-systems
forcedotcom/aura
Dec 2015 - May 2016
This project is archived, please see the readme for additional resources.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily focused on updating and styling the user interface of the Aura Inspector, a developer tool within the Aura framework. Their commits involved significant changes to the CSS, including styling tweaks, the incorporation of the Lightning Design System (SLDS) components and responsive design considerations. They also addressed bugs related to the actions panel and component tree display, with several updates in JavaScript and HTML, demonstrating expertise in front-end development with a focus on a framework's developer tools.
additionalsalesforce-lightninglwcarchivedshadow-dom
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