Shelley Vohr
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolShelley Vohr is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of experience building and stewarding large-scale developer platforms and desktop frameworks. At Microsoft she has been a top contributor and release lead for Electron—impacting over 100 million desktops—creating release automation, API governance, and chatops-driven deployment bots. Her work includes upstreaming fixes to Chromium, V8, BoringSSL and Node.js, and she has authored 750+ substantive merged PRs to core Electron since 2017. Known for pragmatic engineering leadership, she combines hands-on backend contributions (notably improving Electron’s auto-updater error handling) with process design that keeps complex open-source projects shipping reliably.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.S.) in Computer Science Minor in Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.S.) in Computer Science Minor in Psychology at Duke UniversityDiploma High School, Diploma High School at The Thacher School
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Github Skills (7)
error-handling10
electron10
cprogramming-language9
javascript9
c-language9
nodejs9
macos8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
electron/electron
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
:electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Shelley primarily focused on enhancing the auto-updater functionality within the Electron framework. Their contributions involved adding error handling, incorporating parameters like error codes and domains for improved debugging, and refactoring code to move the auto-updater logic. They also worked on updating header declarations and addressing linter errors, ensuring code quality and maintainability.
jsc-plus-plusdesktop-appscssjavascript
codebytere/hackerrank
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:44 commits in 11 months
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