Joannah Nanjekye
Software Engineer at Phyton
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Uganda
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Top SchoolJoannah Nanjekye is a software engineer with nine years of experience bridging backend development, documentation, and full-stack work, currently based in Pittsburgh while originally from Uganda. She combines formal training in software and aeronautical engineering with hands-on contributions to major open-source projects like CPython and SymPy, where she improved core modules and restructured documentation for better usability. Comfortable across code and docs, she has implemented features in Python’s standard library (e.g., pathlib.Path.link_to, posix_spawn enhancements) and contributed UI and end-to-end test fixes to qutebrowser. Passionate about aviation and practical outcomes, she favors results over reasons and enjoys diving into code to solve real problems.
10 years of coding experience
Aeronautical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering at Kenya Aeronautical CollegeSeroma Christian High SchoolBachelor of Science in software engineering., Bachelor of Science in software engineering. at Makerere University
gishu, Kiswahili, Bantu, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
core-module10
restructuredtext10
qt10
python10
sphinx10
testing10
capi10
browser10
python-modules10
pyqt10
qutebrowser10
documentation10
qtwebengine9
configuration-management9
qwebengine9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
python/cpython
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
The Python programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:156 reviews, 4 commits, 174 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Joannah contributed to the Python programming language repository, specifically focusing on the `time` and `os` modules. Their contributions included adding and updating documentation for C API functions, and implementing new features like `pathlib.Path.link_to` and incorporating the `setsid` parameter in `os.posix_spawn()` and `os.posix_spawnp()`. They also fixed issues within the test suite and made code refactorings for existing functions.
programming-languagepython
sympy/sympy
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:4 reviews, 16 PRs, 22 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Joannah primarily contributed to the project by updating and restructuring the documentation. They modified several `.rst` files, including those related to the public API reference, specific modules (basics, physics, etc.), and the overall reference documentation. The user refactored the documentation structure by using links instead of a table of contents, and corrected some typos. These changes improved the organization and navigation of the project's documentation.
computer-algebra-systempythonmathcomputer-algebrascience
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