Rebecca Shoptaw
Software Engineer, Core Site UX Team at Internet Archive
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Shoptaw is a software engineer focused on front-end and UX-driven solutions, currently building scalable, maintainable TypeScript and React systems for the Internet Archive. In two years she has shipped high-impact features for sites with millions of monthly visitors, including a JSON-driven page layout generator used by 1M+ collection admins and a modernized review workflow that replaced legacy PHP with fully tested TypeScript components. She combines a clean, modular coding philosophy with pragmatic project management, breaking ambiguous requests into iterative phases and closing 100+ Jira tickets in eight months. Rebecca also led internationalization automation for Open Library—cutting translation rollout from months to minutes—and contributes UI improvements to the well-known openlibrary project. With a background in film and media studies from Yale, she brings design sensibility to engineering and a knack for turning complex UX needs into simple, reusable components.
2 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Film and Media Studies, 3.88, cum laude, Bachelor's degree, Film and Media Studies, 3.88, cum laude at Yale University
Github Skills (4)
html10
javascript10
css10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
internetarchive/openlibrary
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
One webpage for every book ever published!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 53 PRs, 148 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Rebecca primarily focused on improving the user interface within the Open Library project. They made several commits that updated HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files related to the cover image upload and form elements. Their contributions included switching to built-in HTML URL validation, updating placeholder text, adding loading indicators, and refining the styling of several forms and the login page to improve user experience.
reactinternet-archiveeverlibrary-cataloguepublished
rebecca-shoptaw/rebecca-shoptaw.github.io
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:184 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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