Susie Sahim
Founder at PaperDemon LLC
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSusie Sahim is a founder and full‑stack engineer with 10+ years building engaging web experiences and communities from the Bay Area. After a decade at Google leading web and design teams—mentoring developers, teaching JavaScript/accessibility, and running cross‑team initiatives—she bootstrapped PaperDemon.com, an art-and-writing RPG-style community focused on learning and mental health. She designs and ships frontends (recently Angular/Angular Universal) and maintains a PHP/MySQL backend while also running content, livestreams, and Discord-driven community programs. An advocate for test quality, she contributed QA and Jest test automation to the Scratch GUI project, improving core feature reliability. Combining illustration and animation training with hands-on engineering, Susie brings a rare mix of product design, pedagogy, and technical leadership to creator-focused products.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
javascript10
enzyme10
jestjs10
react10
test-automation10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
scratchfoundation/scratch-gui
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Graphical User Interface for creating and running Scratch 3.0 projects.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Susie focused on setting up and implementing unit tests for the Scratch-GUI project. Their contributions included setting up Jest, creating test files for key components like the green flag, and writing tests to verify functionality. They also added documentation on how to run the tests. The user's work aimed to improve the project's test coverage and ensure the reliability of core features.
graphicalscratchuser-interfacegraphical-user-interface
bogusred/user-manual
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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