Ynda Jas
Senior Developer at dxw
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolYnda Jas is a Senior Developer based in Bristol with eight years’ experience building open source software for the public sector, primarily using Ruby and TypeScript. At dxw they lead and ship work in agile, interdisciplinary teams, combining full‑stack engineering with a strong commitment to tech for good. A serial polyglot programmer and lifelong learner, Ynda experiments with languages from C and Rust to GDScript and R, which informs pragmatic, cross‑disciplinary solutions. Outside code they organise in queer, tech, and tennis communities, and bring a background in academia, writing, analysis and event curation to collaborative projects. Their public-facing work is traceable on GitHub (github.com/yndajas) and across social platforms, and they balance hands-on development with advocacy for inclusive, ethical technology.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Sociolinguistics, Distinction, Master of Arts - MA, Sociolinguistics, Distinction at University of YorkDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Withdrawn, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Withdrawn at Queen Mary University of LondonBootcamp, Full-stack Software Engineering, Bootcamp, Full-stack Software Engineering at Flatiron SchoolIlkley Grammar SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA), Film and Television Production, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Film and Television Production, 2:1 at York St John UniversityIndividual modules, Computer Science, Individual modules, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityPGCert, Diversity Management, Merit, PGCert, Diversity Management, Merit at University of Bradford
English, Spanish, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (176)
devise10
vim-plugin10
vim10
lua10
publish10
raise10
linting10
nvim10
javascript10
api10
imports10
single-sign-on10
container10
text-editor10
eslint10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
yndajas/selected-text-readability
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 20 commits, 16 pushes in 10 months
yndajas/Nihongo-scripts
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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