Tharaa Elmorssi is a Frontend Engineer based in Sydney with over 15 years in software development and eight years focused on front-end engineering, currently building commerce experiences at BigCommerce. She has deep e-commerce domain expertise from hands-on roles across startups and agencies, and contributed notable enhancements to BigCommerce’s open-source checkout projects—shipping payment UI improvements, localization, crypto icons, and SDK-level customer/payment features. Comfortable across the stack, she pairs React and modern JS skills with strong accessibility, SEO and performance sensibilities learned through Google’s Front-End Nanodegree and diverse platform work (Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce). Former project and team leader, she brings product-aware delivery, client-facing communication, and a track record of turning complex payment flows into polished, test-covered user experiences.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Information Technology at Alexandria University
General Secondary Certificate, --, General Secondary Certificate, -- at MEGS
Contributions:16 reviews, 16 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tharaa primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the checkout-js repository. They addressed issues related to payment method selection and display, particularly focusing on default vaulted instruments. The user also implemented a new payment method UI for PPSDK Credit Card and added icons for Crypto instruments. They also introduced localization features for payment error messages and added corresponding unit tests.
Contributions:29 reviews, 26 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tharaa primarily contributed to the BigCommerce Checkout JavaScript SDK, focusing on enhancing customer and payment-related functionalities. Their work included modifying internal customer objects to incorporate customer groups, implementing the sending of shipping addresses with Braintree PayPal payments, and adding item unit prices to line item objects. They also addressed features related to default stored instruments and carding remediation by updating hosted forms.
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