Sarah Egan
Technical Director at Nearform
Glenwood Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Egan is a Technical Director with a decade of engineering experience leading teams, shaping front-end architecture, and shipping polished user-facing systems from Rockies-based Nearform. She blends strategic leadership with hands-on work—having driven React/Next.js rebuilds, improved testing practices, and maintained popular OSS like Nuka Carousel while contributing UI and documentation improvements to the urql GraphQL ecosystem. Known for turning product needs into resilient, accessible interfaces, she emphasizes team growth and developer ergonomics as much as delivery. Her background ranges from Linux and AWS ops to eCommerce search integrations, giving her uncommon fluency across ops, front-end engineering, and developer tooling.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, MEAN Stack Web Development, Web Development Immersive, MEAN Stack Web Development at Galvanize IncBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Integrative Physiology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Integrative Physiology at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
styled-components10
carousel-slider10
react10
documentation10
accessibility9
css9
wpgraphql5
wordpress-graphql5
graphql-client5
graphql5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/nuka-carousel
Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
Small, fast, and accessibility-first React carousel library with an easily customizable UI and behavior to fit your brand and site.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 32 reviews, 165 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the React carousel library. Their work involved fixing bugs related to click events and slide transitions, enhancing the user experience. The user also implemented new features, such as the addition of an active class for visible slides and the zoom animation. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to height calculations, accessibility, and overall functionality.
reactnuka-carouselpure-reactslidejavascript
urql-graphql/urql
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
The highly customizable and versatile GraphQL client with which you add on features like normalized caching as you grow.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Spectacle documentation site. Their work focused on refactoring the home page using styled components, and implementing the structure and styling for the documentation sidebar and the rendering of markdown content. Additionally, the user worked on various responsiveness fixes and incorporated navigation elements. These contributions improved the user interface and documentation presentation.
graphql-clientnormalizedurqlexchangecomplex-apps
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