Tania Rascia
Principal Software Engineer at Balto
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTania Rascia is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building modern JavaScript and TypeScript applications, specializing in front-end architecture, documentation, and developer experience. She has led teams to modernize web and Electron apps—improving performance, security (OAuth2/OpenID Connect/PKCE), and test coverage—while architecting CDNs and AWS-backed deployments for scalable builds. A hands-on leader, she’s driven cross-team initiatives like front-end guilds and platform refactors that reduced onboarding friction and boilerplate. Her open-source work ranges from a plain-JS MVC reference and React Hooks tutorials to a Gatsby-powered personal site and a webpack 5 boilerplate that reflect a focus on clarity and teaching. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, she pairs practical engineering with clear technical writing—having authored dozens of developer tutorials for DigitalOcean—and, not obviously, moonlights as the “lead singer of Floppy and the Diskettes.”
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Professional Studies, Bachelor of Professional Studies at Robert Morris University - Illinois
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (43)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
taniarascia/new-moon
Jul 2015 - Jul 2021
🌙 The optimized dark theme for web development.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 117 commits, 29 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Tania primarily focused on updating the documentation and UI elements within the New Moon syntax theme repository. They addressed URL issues, merged branches, updated CSS styles for mobile responsiveness, and added a vector logo. The user's contributions included modifying the HTML and CSS files to enhance the theme's visual presentation and usability, while ensuring compatibility across different screen sizes. These changes improved the theme's appearance and functionality.
chrome-devtools-extensionvisual-studio-codesyntax-themecssiterm2-theme
taniarascia/sandbox
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Development sandbox for front end projects and tutorials.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tania contributed to front-end development, primarily focusing on building the UI and styling of the "Dave's Website" and the "Portfolio" projects. Their work included implementing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create different web pages, and integrating UI components, as demonstrated by modifications to index.html, main.css, and the ghibli app. They also updated and refactored code using the jQuery Cycle2 library in the "sandbox" project. Additionally, they developed and added an app with an error code.
javascriptsandboxsandbox-developmentfrontendwebpack
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