Sarah Smolen
Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Smolen is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with eight years of experience building front-end experiences for major publishing brands, currently shaping subscriber experience and personalization at The New York Times. She specializes in React, JavaScript, and CSS, with a track record of shipping customer-facing features and reusable component libraries across Wirecutter, Penske Media, and Higher Logic. Sarah pairs product-focused UI work with pragmatic engineering practices—she built testing libraries from scratch, contributed to data dashboards, and implemented in-app help and search features that improved usability. A University of Maryland Computer Science graduate, she blends academic research experience (including web privacy and mapping projects) with production engineering, making her unusually comfortable translating user research into robust front-end implementations.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (13)
higher-order-component9
accessibility9
react8
forms8
google-streetview8
react-hooks8
react-native7
formik7
typescript6
javascript4
frontend4
react-component4
font-awesome2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sarahsmo/cmsc436group6
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:54 PRs, 41 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
sarahsmo/sarahsmo.github.io
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:34 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
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