Alma Madsen
Cofounder & CTO at Workona Inc.
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlma Madsen is a hands-on engineering leader and cofounder/CTO with 14+ years of experience shipping SaaS products from startup prototypes to scale. She has led engineering and product teams across companies from fintech at JPMorgan to product-heavy roles at Lucid and i.TV, and has been guiding Workona’s technical vision since 2017. Alma combines front-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions that fixed visual jitter and lifecycle bugs in a widely used React Native Swiper—with practical product sensibilities honed as a founder of event-software and photo-booth platforms. Her background in mechanical engineering informs a systems-minded approach to building reliable, user-centered interfaces and developer workflows. Colleagues know her for moving between strategy and code, refactoring for stability while keeping teams focused on customer value. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep shipping experience across UX and engineering disciplines.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
react-native10
react10
swipe-gestures9
swipeview9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
leecade/react-native-swiper
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
The best Swiper component for React Native.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Alma primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the React Native Swiper component. They addressed issues related to visual jitter when swiping, particularly when setting offsets, and updated the component to correctly pass the full state to various callbacks. Other contributions included code refactoring and component lifecycle adjustments. These changes enhanced the stability and functionality of the component.
react-nativeswipereact
nemophrost/generator-react
Nov 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
react-applicationsreactyeoman-generatoryeoman
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