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I'm Shiela.

An innovator, a software engineer,

and an educator.

About

Hi!

I am a front-end software engineer at JPMorgan Chase. After a rewarding 12 year career as an educator, I transitioned industries to pursue coding. I love building meaningful products and am an innovator who works to align my passions with my skills. I love tinkering and coding ideas that I have. Explore my coding projects in Skills and Tools. Read more about my teaching in Projects.

When I'm not coding or talking with fellow teachers, I enjoy listening to music and playing board games with my daughters.

My Journey

Front-End Engineer at JPMorgan Chase — Infatuation

Growing my expertise in React, TypeScript, and UI development at scale
Building accessible and delightful user interfaces

Chibitronics Head of Education & Associate Software Engineer

Developed products under a federally funded grant and wrote code to support the development
Collaborated on a new prototype that involved both software and hardware

Hack Reactor Software Engineering Bootcamp

Recipient of the Galvanize Scholarship to advance my skills in software engineering
Advanced Software Engineering Certificate

STEM & Computer Science PreK-5 Teacher

2022 Awardee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST Award)
#NYCSchoolsTech Award 2021
Computer Science Lead

Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Equity Fellow

Developing equitable teaching practices and advocacy
Collaborating with other teachers to address equity in the computer science classroom

Math for America Fellow

Master Teacher Fellowship Award
Broadening my growth as an educator, contributing to a professional community, and elevating the status of our profession

Special Education Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) Teacher

Orton-Gillingham Certified Instructor
Computer Science 4 All (CS4ALL) Teacher Trainer
Big Apple Award Finalist

Teachers College, Columbia University

MA in Curriculum and Instruction
Dual certification to teach students with disabilities and general education students grades 1-6

Fulbright Fellow to Teach English in Taiwan

Awarded favorite teacher on Confucius Teacher's Day
Started two special English classes for disadvantaged students
Co-taught English to grades 1-6 in a public elementary school in Kaohsiung

Grinnell College

BA in Philosophy, Cum Laude
John H. Worley Endowed Prize in Philosophy

Technical Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

React

Html5

CSS

Git Version Control

Claude AI

Prompt Engineering

Figma

Showcase Project: Wellness Whale

A single page wellness application that tracks a person's mood, water intake, meditations, and journal entries. Using Redux/React to dynamically display the information on a progress page, this app stores the data in a PostgresSQL database using FastAPI as its backend. The application was styled with Tailwind CSS. I worked on a team of three other people as we built out this project in three weeks.

Tools

As a software engineer, I like to build tools that are universally designed for learning (UDL) and that help teachers create an accessible and inclusive classroom community. Here are some tools I built for teachers when I was in the classroom.

Station Tool

I designed a tool for my classroom specifically for when I teach using the stations model. I developed this visual tool to help all students know where to go and what to bring to each station.

Interactive 100s Chart

I designed an interactive hundreds chart tool for my students to help them learn about patterns on the hundreds chart and to strengthen their number sense.