Yuraima Estevez
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuraima Estevez is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building web and mobile products, currently driving engineering work at Netflix after leadership and senior roles at Shopify and The New York Times. She blends hands-on front-end expertise—evidenced by contributions to Shopify’s widely used Polaris design system and its VS Code extension—with proven team leadership as a former frontend development manager and engineering manager. Comfortable in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, she excels at quickly researching and adopting new technologies to solve complex problems. Bilingual in Spanish and English and based in Austin, she brings a pragmatic mix of product-focused thinking and developer ergonomics to shipping polished user experiences. An educator at heart, she has taught web programming and mentored engineers across several organizations.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Information Systems Web Application Developement, Master of Science Computer Information Systems Web Application Developement at Boston University Metropolitan CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.) General Science (Concentration in Computer Science), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) General Science (Concentration in Computer Science) at Fordham University
Github Skills (16)
typescript10
typescripts10
vscode-extension10
react10
typescript-types10
sc9
carbon-design-system9
system-design9
sys9
system9
component-library9
scs9
language-server9
css9
autocomplete9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:173 reviews, 87 commits, 140 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Yuraima primarily contributed to the `polaris` repository, focusing on enhancing the VS Code extension `polaris-for-vscode`. Their work involved adding and refining the language server, including implementing token autocompletion, filtering tokens by group, and adding color previews. Additionally, the user updated the extension to include documentation for autocomplete suggestions. Furthermore, the user contributed to the Polaris website refresh by modifying the component page layout.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
yurm04/gatsby-source-nytimes-books-api
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
📚This GatsyJS source plugin fetches data from the NYTimes Books API
Contributions:1 release, 47 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
gatsbyapinytimes-apisnytimessource-plugin
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