Shruti Kapoor
Content Creator
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShruti Kapoor is a Seattle-based frontend engineer, educator, and international speaker with nine years of experience building inclusive, developer-focused web experiences. As a former Staff Software Engineer and Lead Member of Technical Staff at PayPal and Slack, she has led full-stack GraphQL and React initiatives, driven accessibility efforts, and designed a patent-pending fix for media recording mirroring issues. She combines hands-on engineering with community leadership—organizing PayPal's first public JS conference and mentoring engineers, especially women speakers. Shruti also creates technical content full-time and contributes to open-source projects such as a playful dev-joke data pipeline, reflecting an eye for practical tooling and data processing. Her background in computer engineering and early roles across media and enterprise products give her a rare mix of product empathy, accessibility advocacy, and developer ergonomics expertise.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
Hindi, English, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
1,106reputation
402kreached
37answers
21questions
Github Skills (15)
json10
python10
data-processing10
fileio9
file-access9
file-processing9
file-handling9
report-viewer6
knitr6
markdown6
programming-language6
pandoc6
r6
reporting-services6
image6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shrutikapoor08/devjoke
Mar 2019 - May 2022
#DevJoke. Submit a PR if you know a good dev joke.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 reviews, 365 commits, 450 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Shruti's commits primarily involve modifications to `jsonParser/jokesToJson.py`, which extracts jokes from `readme.md` and formats them into a JSON file. This suggests a focus on data processing and the manipulation of text-based data (jokes) to be stored in JSON format, which might be intended for API consumption or data storage. The commits show a consistent pattern of merging and refining this core functionality. This user is likely working to improve the data management aspects of the jokes.
developer-jokesjavascriptdevsubmit
shrutikapoor08/blogs
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
A collection of blog post articles on JavaScript, React, GraphQL and front-end development
Contributions:177 commits, 4 PRs, 153 pushes in 1 year 9 months
front-end-developmentgraphqljavascriptreact
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