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Helen Hou-Sandi

Staff Software Engineering Manager, Accessibility at GitHub

@helen NYC joined Sep 2009

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    Bio

    I’m the Staff Software Engineering Manager for Accessibility at GitHub and a Lead Developer for the WordPress project. Previously the Director of Open Source Initiatives at 10up.

    Interests

    Cooking, open source, new music (as in contemporary classical), old school and third coast hip hop

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    bbPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Staff Software Engineering Manager, Accessibility
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    GitHub

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    Specializations

    evenly split across 1 team · no team-attributable activity in the last 365 days

    Core 100% of attributed activity

    Contributions

    Type
    December 2023
    Dec 21 Thu · 16:56
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Add company icons to sponsored contributors on about page, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    My initial thought here is that this is not a proposal as-is and therefore is…
    November 2022
    Nov 17 Thu · 05:07
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Improving the contributor experience: GitHub Codespaces for WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Here's where I am right now, still using @dinhtungdu's image from way back 😁 https://github.com/helen/wordpress-develop/pull/53#issuecomment-1318070672…
    Nov 15 Tue · 19:59
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Improving the contributor experience: GitHub Codespaces for WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    The more options available the better is my opinion - USB sticks, other remote dev…
    Nov 15 Tue · 19:57
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Improving the contributor experience: GitHub Codespaces for WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Any chance your setup for these is publicly viewable? Would love to see your approach.
    Nov 09 Wed · 21:47
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Improving the contributor experience: GitHub Codespaces for WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    tl;dr: With the announcement of 60 hours of free usage per month per individual user,…
    October 2022
    Oct 03 Mon · 17:38
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2022
    February 2022
    Feb 02 Wed · 22:54
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Ensuring Proper Attribution for Contributions to WordPress on GitHub, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Well, I can bug the devrel people who've been taking my input since long before…
    November 2021
    Nov 15 Mon · 17:46
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Ads.txt will not update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The two likely culprits here are either that it's still being cached (perhaps by Cloudflare?)…
    June 2021
    Jun 24 Thu · 13:24
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Allow AWS’ us-east-1 region IPs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hello - there are a couple of options here. For that length of a list,…
    April 2021
    Apr 27 Tue · 22:44
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WP5.8 Squad Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I would be willing to serve as Core Tech lead, am still invested in the…

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