Selina Zawacki
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSelina Zawacki is a full-stack software engineer with nine years of experience building Node.js and Python APIs, and front-end work in Vue.js and React, often deployed to cloud environments. She contributes to open-source tooling for performance—most notably adding CLI and Puppeteer-backed test features to a React optimization tool—demonstrating attention to runtime efficiency and developer ergonomics. With a BFA in New Media from UIUC, she brings a creative, design-minded approach to engineering and even has hands-on experience in circuit design and Arduino development. Based in Chicago, she pairs technical breadth with a passion for teaching and outreach, actively working to inspire young women, minorities, and low-income students to pursue technology.
9 years of coding experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
react10
cli9
puppeteer8
testing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
reactopt/reactopt
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
A CLI React performance optimization tool that identifies potential unnecessary re-rendering
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:136 commits, 109 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Selina contributed to a React performance optimization tool, making changes to the core functionality. They implemented a CLI that launches a URL. They removed dependencies. Further commits reorganized and cleaned up files. The user also added functionality for test suite and the use of the puppeteer.
reactperformance-optimizationoptimizationreact-performancerendering
szmoon/tien-wei-chang-images
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:367 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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