Shannon Alexander-navarro
Software Engineer at Nava
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShannon Alexander-navarro is a software engineer based in New York with nine years of experience specializing in Android development and a growing focus on Flutter and Dart. At Nava she contributes full-stack improvements and has worked on high-profile open-source identity projects like Login.gov’s identity provider, enhancing UI components and in-person verification flows. Her background combines hands-on engineering with program management and teaching experience—she’s led technical career development for underrepresented adults and served as an Android TA in an elite fellowship. Trained as a cartoonist/illustrator, she brings a strong visual sensibility to UX and UI feedback, which complements her knack for polishing both front-end interactions and backend validation. A comic-book enthusiast and movie lover, she blends creativity with pragmatic engineering to improve user-facing systems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Cartooning/Illustration, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Cartooning/Illustration at The School of Visual Arts
Github Skills (13)
ruby-rails10
typescript10
javascript10
rails10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
identity10
ruby10
accessibility9
test-automation8
css4
oid4
react4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
18F/identity-idp
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Login.gov Core App: Identity Provider (IdP)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:546 reviews, 35 commits, 143 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Shannon focused on enhancing the user interface and backend functionality of the Login.gov Identity Provider. They implemented and refined a memorable date component, including frontend and backend validation. Furthermore, the user made several code changes to improve the in-person identity verification process. These changes include updates to the email templates and analytics events, as well as adjustments in the codebase.
govoidcprovideridpcivic-tech
rooksoto/C4QHackathonApp
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:37 PRs, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
low-costhealthcare
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