Sheila Miguez
Software Engineer at Canonical
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSheila Miguez is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale web applications in polyglot environments. Based in Chicago, she thrives in fast-paced teams with rapid release cycles and is passionate about writing maintainable code and obsessive about documentation. Her open-science advocacy informs her work and she contributes to notable open-source projects, including back-end schedule features for the Pinax symposion conference platform and front-end improvements to the official Ubuntu website. Comfortable across front-end templating and Django back-ends, she focuses on pragmatic, auditable solutions that scale. Colleagues rely on her for clear docs and predictable delivery during continuous change. An under-the-sea code monkey at heart, she blends curiosity with rigorous engineering discipline.
13 years of coding experience
University of Maryland
Github Skills (20)
website-development10
python10
apidoc10
django10
webui10
api10
webapp10
html10
website-design10
json8
administration7
databases7
database-administration7
database-design7
database7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pinax/symposion
Aug 2014 - Jul 2017
a Django project for conference websites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sheila primarily contributed to the back-end of the Django project, focusing on the schedule functionality. Their work included fixing flake8 issues, adding features to the schedule JSON endpoint, and incorporating placeholder values for future model changes related to a proposal base. The user also updated the schedule admin and documentation for content management.
pythondjango-frameworkdjangodjango-blogdjango-project
canonical/ubuntu.com
May 2021 - Jul 2022
The official website for the Ubuntu operating system
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Sheila primarily contributed to the front-end of the Ubuntu website, specifically the certified section. Their work focused on updating and refactoring the templates for the certified hardware details pages, and fixing display issues. They also modified the homepage certified section. These changes involved HTML templating and potentially Python/Django for backend integration.
operating-systemoperatingweb-and-designubuntu
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