Ellen Marie Dash
Brockton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarEllen Dash is a seasoned website designer and software developer in Melbourne, Florida with 16 years of experience building client sites and enterprise UX/UI systems. She runs Zlik Design and brings prior lead engineering experience at Allscripts, NantHealth, and a long tenure at Harris Corporation, pairing polished front-end skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, WordPress) with backend experience in PHP, Java, and C++. A University of Florida master’s graduate in Web Design (4.0), Ellen is equally comfortable crafting pixel-perfect interfaces and diving into low-level reliability and performance work. Her open-source contributions to high-profile projects like pip and RubyGems—adding cache inspection, concurrent download support, and other robustness improvements—plus fixes in Jepsen reveal an unusual blend of client-facing design sensibility and systems-level engineering.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (40)
package-managers10
system-programming10
python10
rubygems10
testing10
commandline-interface10
packaging10
memory-management10
command-line-interface10
file-io10
c1110
refactorings10
ruby10
c1710
build210
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
rubygems/rubygems
Feb 2016 - Jun 2022
Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 77 commits, 102 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ellen primarily contributed to the RubyGems library, focusing on improving its compatibility and functionality. They fixed issues related to binary file reading and writing on older Ruby versions (1.8.7). Additionally, the user refactored existing code by splitting out functions and adding new features such as a threaded download reporter and concurrent downloads configuration to improve performance. The user also addressed several deprecation warnings and made code style improvements.
rubygemspackagingpackage-managerrubymruby
pypa/pip
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
The Python package installer
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 40 commits, 3 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ellen primarily contributed to the development of the `pip cache` command, adding functionality to inspect and manage the wheel cache. This included implementing features such as listing, removing, and purging cached files. The user also refactored existing code related to the cache command and fixed linting errors. Their work focused on improving the user interface and maintainability of the pip package installer.
pythonpackage-installerpippackaginginstaller
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