Sarah Vessels
Software Engineer at GitHub github
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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RockstarSarah Vessels is a software engineer with 16 years of experience building front-end interfaces and robust test automation, currently contributing at GitHub from Nashville. She’s delivered UX improvements and repository management features in GitHub Desktop, authored and refactored ViewComponents for Primer (including a polished PopoverComponent), and hardened the high-profile github/explore repo by adding Minitest suites that validate Jekyll front matter, metadata, image specs and even style-guide compliance like Oxford comma usage. Her work bridges hands-on UI development and a disciplined QA mindset to ship features that are both usable and well-tested. Outside of work she’s known to fuel long debugging sessions with Earl Grey tea and video games.
16 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
ruby-rails10
typescript310
ui-d10
javascript10
electron10
testing10
typescript10
rails10
viewcomponents10
typescript210
ui-design10
ruby10
javascripts10
viewcomponent10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
github/explore
Sep 2017 - Apr 2020
Community-curated topic and collection pages on GitHub
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 244 commits, 89 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sarah's contributions focused on enhancing the testing framework for the repository. They added a testing gem (Minitest), implemented tests to ensure the presence of `index.md` files, the correct image naming and dimensions, and the absence of unexpected files. The user also implemented tests to validate Jekyll front matter, metadata, and adherence to a specific topic page style guide, including Oxford comma usage, providing a robust suite of automated checks.
community-drivencollectionsexploretopics
primer/view_components
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
ViewComponents for the Primer Design System
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 23 reviews, 53 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily focused on developing ViewComponents for the Primer Design System. Their contributions involved creating a `PopoverComponent`, including its structure, styling, and interaction with other components. The user refactored the component, changing content areas to slots, and implemented customizations for various aspects, such as message appearance, button styles, and overall positioning. Extensive testing was also performed to ensure the correct functionality of the new component.
primerrailsviewcomponentsprimer-designruby
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