Zahra Jabini
Director Of Design Engineering at The Webby Awards
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZahra Jabini is a design-focused engineering leader with 13 years of experience shaping frontend platforms and product strategy, currently directing Design Engineering at Vercel from New York. She combines an architectural eye (BA/MS in Architecture/Civil Engineering) with deep frontend craft—career highlights include leading BDG’s engineering organization through relaunches, scalable CMS work, and cross-functional product initiatives. Zahra is an active open-source contributor who improved cross-browser compatibility in mobiledoc-kit, demonstrating attention to legacy support and pragmatic refactors. A painter and architect at heart, she blends visual sensibility with systems thinking to ship delightful web experiences at scale. Her judging role at the Webby Awards and membership in Chief underscore a commitment to industry leadership and advancing women in executive tech roles.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA/MS Architecture/Civil Engineering, BA/MS Architecture/Civil Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology
English, Persian
Github Skills (8)
data-manipulation10
compatibility10
compatible10
javascript10
wysiwyg10
backward-compatibility10
html-editor10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bustle/mobiledoc-kit
Nov 2015 - May 2022
A toolkit for building WYSIWYG editors with Mobiledoc
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 3 reviews, 107 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Zahra primarily focused on improving the compatibility and functionality of the `mobiledoc-kit` library. Their contributions included refactoring code to support older browsers like IE11, replacing `Object.entries` and `Array.includes` with utility functions, and replacing `for...of` loops with `forEach` to address compatibility issues. Additionally, the user implemented the ability to specify section attributes. These changes enhance the library's cross-browser compatibility and feature set.
mobiledocmobiledoc-kitjavascriptwysiwygwysiwyg-editor
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