Shimi Y
Software Engineer at Blend
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolShimi Y is a seasoned software engineer with 9 years of experience crafting accessible, modular front-end frameworks and design systems that translate polished UX into high-performing products. She has driven front-end architecture and component development for HPE’s widely adopted Grommet framework—contributing normalization algorithms and robust test coverage to a project with nearly 2 million downloads and a thriving community. At Blend and HPE she’s built internationalized, WCAG-compliant, responsive systems and led cross-functional teams to balance design intent with long-term maintainability. A confident public speaker and community leader, she co-chairs regional women-in-tech initiatives and brings a collaborative, design-driven approach to technical strategy. Notably, her work on chart normalization showcases an attention to edge-case data handling that improves real-world visualization reliability.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,198reputation
46kreached
74answers
1question
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
react-components10
grommet10
jes10
ui-design10
react-component10
uid10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
jtest10
react10
carbon-design-system9
system-design9
sys9
html6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
grommet/grommet
Sep 2016 - Nov 2022
a react-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & UI Designer
Front-end Developer & UI DesignerContributions:42 releases, 770 reviews, 483 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Shimi primarily worked on the normalization function for charts within the Grommet framework, focusing on handling data gaps and creating evenly distributed data points for visual representation. Their work included refactoring the normalization class, implementing and testing a series of normalization algorithms, and adding multiple tests for single and multiple series data normalization. In addition, they added tests for other visual components and refined indentation for improved code quality.
babelreactmodularityjavascripta11y
hpe-design/hpe-server
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 reviews, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.