Simon Fessehaye
Senior Software Developer at Hootsuite
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Fessehaye is a senior software developer based in Vancouver with 13 years of experience focused on front-end engineering and design-driven rebuilds. He has driven component libraries and design system implementations at organizations from Mozilla—contributing to the Foundation’s public site and CMS—to startups where he rebuilt UIs with React, TypeScript, Material UI, Tailwind and Storybook. Simon pairs pragmatic developer tooling (Playwright, Fastlane, GitHub Actions) with accessibility and stability initiatives that reduced errors and improved content workflows. Comfortable across the stack, he has a track record of automating build pipelines, optimizing bundling, and shipping interactive, animated interfaces. Colleagues rely on him to lead sprint rituals and translate Figma systems into maintainable, production-grade components.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computing Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computing Science at University of Alberta
English
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
javascript10
web-development10
front-end-development10
tailwindcss10
back-end-development9
responsive-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MozillaFoundation/foundation.mozilla.org
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Mozilla Foundation website
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:259 reviews, 404 commits, 347 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon's contributions centered around front-end and back-end web development tasks for the Mozilla Foundation website. They removed SCSS files, ensured the proper loading of italic font styles, and updated the style guide. The user also refactored and added components. They also addressed styling and bug fixes.
web-appmozillamozfoundation
fessehaye/ABsmash
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:70 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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