Serene Yew
Chief Executive Officer at Pixeltree Inc
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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RockstarSerene Yew is a Calgary-based technology leader and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building and guiding software teams. As CEO of Pixeltree Inc and co-founder of Local Shops, she focuses on educating startup founders, scaling engineering teams, and mentoring the next generation of tech talent. Her background includes hands-on roles from software developer to Director of Technology, with deep full-stack experience in Ruby on Rails, .NET, Java, and test-driven practices. Serene has contributed to well-known open-source tooling—maintaining the pdfkit Ruby gem to keep HTML-to-PDF workflows compatible with evolving Rack middleware. She blends product-facing delivery experience from client work at ThoughtWorks and consultancy with strategic leadership that turns technical know-how into sustainable ventures. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic builder who pairs technical depth with an eye for team growth and community impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
middleware10
html-to-pdf10
wkhtmltopdf10
ruby10
bump9
bumpversion9
versioning9
bump2version9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pdfkit/pdfkit
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 5 reviews, 41 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Serene primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `pdfkit/pdfkit` Ruby gem. They made version bumps, ranging from minor bug fixes to significant releases. They also modified the codebase to ensure compatibility with newer versions of the `rack` library, specifically lowercasing header names. This involved changing header handling in the middleware implementation.
ruby-gempdftransformpdfkitwkhtmltopdf
quantifica/etl_api
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
API Wrapper for ETL App
Contributions:66 PRs, 41 pushes, 67 branches in 10 months
apietlpythonapi-wrapper
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