Samuel Estrella
Senior Software Engineer at Hightouch
Oregon, Spain
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Top SchoolSamuel Estrella is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building polished front-end experiences and data-driven applications, currently at Hightouch and based in Oregon. He has a strong React/TypeScript background from multiple roles at Formidable, where he shipped large web, mobile, and kiosk apps and contributed to the open-source Web Stories for WordPress project as a front-end developer. His work blends accessibility, performance, and agentic engineering practices with hands-on UI design system improvements that prioritize developer reuse and product polish. Samuel’s early physics training and research background inform a methodical, experiment-driven approach to debugging and performance tuning. Colleagues describe him as a people-oriented engineer who pairs technical depth with pragmatic collaboration across design and backend teams.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at University of Oregon
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
javascript10
styled-components10
ui-design10
react10
ui-components9
amp-stories9
css8
accessibility7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
Web Stories for WordPress
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1404 reviews, 261 commits, 257 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WordPress Web Stories plugin. Their commits involve UI design updates, including replacing purples with blues in the animation panel, removing page icons from the pre-publish checklist, and adding new components like the checkbox and the toggle. These updates reflect a focus on improving the visual and functional aspects of the editor's user interface. Furthermore, the user worked on design system styling and UI elements.
wordpresswordpress-pluginampweb-stories
samwhale/login-app
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
An app used to practice testing
Contributions:11 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
fluttertestingandroid
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