Presley Pizzo
Productivity Coach at Parts with Presley
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPresley Pizzo is a productivity coach and former frontend software engineer with 14 years of experience building complex user interfaces in React, TypeScript, Angular, and Vue. She helped shape the architecture of Coder’s open-source frontend and contributed significant refactors and state-machine-driven auth improvements to a well-known remote development environment project. Holding a PhD in Linguistics, Presley blends quantitative research skills and computational modeling with human-centered coaching, using Internal Family Systems to help remote and self-employed clients overcome procrastination and perfectionism. Based in Somerville, MA, she freelanced across startups and research teams, often tackling parts of the stack beyond the UI, and brings a rare combination of deep technical craftsmanship and empathic behavioral coaching.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Linguistics at Emory UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Linguistics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Spanish, French, Italian, German
Github Skills (13)
xstate10
state-management10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
react10
jtest10
jes10
typescript-types9
typescript9
go9
typescripts9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
coder/coder
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Provision remote development environments via Terraform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:341 reviews, 115 commits, 123 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Presley primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the front-end of the application. Key contributions include replacing the `UserContext` with `userXService`, implementing the XState state machine to handle user authentication and state management. The user also added unit tests, updated the UI for administrative functions, and improved the overall user interface and experience by incorporating features such as a new admin dropdown, as well as improving existing components.
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presleyp/Speriment
Sep 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:11 releases, 133 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 9 months
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