Salma Alam-naylor
Maintainer at Nordcraft
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSalma Alam-naylor is a web developer, international speaker and tech educator with six years of professional software experience and a background in music composition. Currently maintainer at npmx and Head of Developer Education at Nordcraft, she blends developer relations and hands-on front-end work to make tooling and learning experiences more approachable. Her career spans senior roles at Sentry and Netlify where she focused on developer experience, and she contributes to notable community projects like wesbos/awesome-uses, improving front-end profiles and UX. Trained as a composer (BMus First Class) and a certified pedagogue, she brings a musician’s attention to craft and a teacher’s instinct for clear communication. Colleagues describe her as someone who writes code “for your entertainment,” turning complex developer workflows into engaging learning moments.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BMus (Hons) First Class Composition, BMus (Hons) First Class Composition at Royal Northern College of MusicPGCertT Teaching Pedagogy, PGCertT Teaching Pedagogy at The Manchester Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react9
github8
categories6
contentful6
content-management-system6
contentful-management6
cloudinary6
twig6
rich-text6
gatsby6
contentful-api6
accessibility5
blogger4
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
wesbos/awesome-uses
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software and configs.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Salma primarily contributed to the front-end aspect of the project by adding and updating user profiles with information like social media links and platform handles. They fixed a validation error and updated the user profiles. The user also updated the website's styling through the use of formatting changes.
gearconfigssetups
whitep4nth3r/p4nth3rlabs
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Twitch chat, Twitch stream alerts and other fun stuff
Contributions:1 release, 21 PRs, 127 pushes in 1 year 3 months
chatalertsbroadcasttwitchstream
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