Sarah Gerrard
Open Source Developer at SolidJS
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Gerrard is a Senior Software Developer and open-source maintainer specializing in accessible, high-performance front-end experiences using React, TypeScript, and SolidJS. She has driven measurable impact across major ecosystems—cutting tanstack.com’s bundle size by 68%, redesigning SolidJS’s documentation architecture, and building WCAG-compliant, multilingual election tools that served 3M+ users. Comfortable both shipping infrastructure (custom Markdown pipelines, CI/CD, Netlify integrations) and refining developer experience, she blends analytics-informed performance work with clear, inclusive documentation. Her background ranges from scaling production UIs to training AI tooling under NDA, and she brings a pragmatic, user-centered approach shaped by earlier client-facing and healthcare roles. Based in Canada with four years of focused engineering experience, she’s open to roles where craft, community, and measurable UX gains matter.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Citation in Computer Aided Design and Drafting, Citation in Computer Aided Design and Drafting at Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Thompson Rivers UniversityDiploma, Registered Massage Therapy, Diploma, Registered Massage Therapy at Langara College
Github Skills (74)
material-ui10
optimization10
javascript10
react-components10
reactive10
in-progress10
rendering10
solidjs10
reactivity10
mui10
react-hooks10
typescript10
preact10
million10
solid-start10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
solidjs/solid-docs
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Official documentation for the Solid ecosystem
Contributions:498 reviews, 446 PRs, 601 pushes in 1 year 9 months
in-progresssolid-jssolidjssolidreactivity
LadyBluenotes/ladybluenotes
May 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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