Sharon Rolel
Staff Software Engineer at Coursera
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSharon Rolel is a Staff Software Engineer based in Old Toronto with 11 years of experience building reliable web applications and front-end libraries. At Coursera since 2018 she drives engineering efforts at scale, bringing practical product focus from prior roles at ActiveAllocator and TipRanks. Her open-source contributions to the high-performance React-like library Inferno highlight deep TypeScript and UI expertise—fixing typings, test suites, and tricky hydration/component issues. A University of Waterloo computer engineering graduate, she blends low-level correctness with pragmatic delivery and a knack for improving developer experience in front-end stacks.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (9)
inferno10
typescript10
typescripts10
jsx10
typescript-types10
react9
javascript9
lifecycle8
testing8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
infernojs/inferno
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
:fire: An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 25 days
Contributions summary:Sharon primarily focused on enhancing the Inferno JavaScript library. Their contributions involved fixing TypeScript errors, refactoring tests, and improving component typing. They also worked on updating and migrating tests, along with fixing hydration issues and component property assignments.
javascript-libraryreactinferno-componentjavascriptuser-interfaces
Mosho1/changeless
Dec 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year
javascriptimmutablefunctional-programming
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