Vallie Joseph
Software Engineer II at GitHub
Wethersfield, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVallie Joseph is a Software Engineer II at GitHub with 11 years of engineering experience and a background in full-stack web, UI, and data-focused roles from The Hartford’s rotational leadership program. She blends front-end leadership—driving Angular migrations, design-system work, and team onboarding—with backend contributions to widely used open-source tooling, notably refactoring error handling and Windows file logic in GitHub's actions/toolkit. Comfortable in cross-functional environments, she has led architecture sessions, mentored junior developers, and built production innovations like a live Rally story-mapping tool. Her experience spans security engineering, data reporting, and Scala certification, reflecting a practical mix of application development and analytical problem solving. Based in Wethersfield, CT, Vallie is finishing a BS in Computer Science with minors in IT, IS, and Game Design, and brings a curious, improvement-oriented approach that surfaces subtle reliability fixes and developer ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Marist CollegeHigh School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, 9-12, High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, 9-12 at Academy of the Holy Names
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
dependency-management10
error-handling10
nodejs10
javascript10
filesystem10
file-operations10
fileio10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
testing8
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
actions/toolkit
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
The GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 25 commits, 33 PRs in 10 days
Contributions summary:Vallie's commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `io` and `tool-cache` packages within the toolkit. They implemented error handling, added conditional logic for Windows-specific file operations, and refactored file system interactions to improve robustness. Furthermore, the user addressed audit failures and dependency upgrades across multiple packages, ensuring the project's security and maintainability. Finally, the user worked on improving error messages and the timeout functionality to aid developers.
developing
vmjoseph/CompositeActionsTest
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 1 year 6 months
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