Serena Girardi
Software Engineer at Spotify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSerena Girardi is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of full-stack experience, currently building products at Spotify from her base in London. She works across modern front-end frameworks (React, Angular, TypeScript, SASS) and back-end stacks (Node.js, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL), blending UI polish with robust server-side engineering. Her career spans fast-moving consultancies and product teams, including multi-year roles at Accurat and Moku, demonstrating adaptability across industries. An active contributor to open-source dataviz tooling, she enhanced Carbon Charts with axis configuration, thresholds and scatter/horizontal chart support—improvements that reflect both design sensitivity and attention to edge-case behavior. Serena’s approach is rooted in continuous learning and practical problem solving, often surfacing small UX or configuration details that materially improve developer and user experience. Fluent in turning complex requirements into maintainable code, she thrives on new challenges and incremental product refinement.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di PadovaInformation Technology, Information Technology at ITIS C.ZUCCANTE
Italian, English
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
typescripts10
d3js10
typescript-types10
angular10
charts10
react9
data-visualisation9
javascript9
data-visualization9
data-viz9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-charts
Feb 2020 - May 2020
:bar_chart: :chart_with_upwards_trend:⠀Robust dataviz framework implemented using D3 & typescript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 23 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Serena primarily focused on enhancing the charting library's functionality and features. Their contributions include adding configuration options to axes, specifically the inclusion of zero on axes. They also worked on implementing and styling thresholds, and integrating them into the chart. Additionally, the user addressed horizontal line and scatter chart support, and modified code to update and change the method names.
vuechartsjavascriptcarbon-design-systemdataviz
SerenaG/spotify-charts-map
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Spotify Top 10 World Map https://serenag.github.io/spotify-charts-map/
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 month
chartsreactworld-mapspotifyspotify-charts
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