Stella Conyer
Software Engineering Manager at Dropbox
Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStella Conyer is a software engineering manager with 12 years of hands-on development experience and a track record of leading teams at Dropbox. She blends full‑stack Rails expertise with product-minded engineering, having driven backend improvements, OAuth fixes, calendar and medication reminder integrations, and test coverage for an open-source mental health app. A pragmatic problem solver and former bug fixer, she elevates code quality through refactors like extracting service objects and adopting secure environment management. Based in Northampton, MA, Stella pairs technical leadership with a human-centered perspective—she's an active contributor to meaningful open-source projects that improve mental health communication. Fluent in cross-disciplinary thinking from studies in political science and Arabic, she brings rare context and curiosity to product and team strategy. Stella is also known for lighthearted humanity in tech (emoji enthusiast) that helps build collaborative, resilient teams.
12 years of coding experience
Arabic, Arabic at Tangier Summer Advanced Arabic Language ProgramPolitical Science, Arabic, Political Science, Arabic at Georgia State UniversityPolitical Science, Arabic, Political Science, Arabic at The American University in Cairo
Github Skills (12)
activerecord10
rspec10
devise10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
google-calendar-api9
javascript9
react7
webpack6
ruby6
webpacker6
mental-health4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ifmeorg/ifme
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Free, open source mental health communication web app to share experiences with loved ones
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 17 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stella primarily contributed to the backend of the Rails application, fixing bugs related to OAuth login and creating associations between users and medications. They also refactored the application by introducing the Figaro gem for environment variable management and extracted the calendar uploader into a service object. Further work included implementing features such as medication reminders, integrating with external services like Google Calendar, and improving the application's testing coverage.
mental-healthjestcapybarareact-testing-librarycommunity-driven
stellacotton/TremorTracker
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:51 commits in 26 days
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