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Natassja Blore

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Natassja Blore

Natassja Blore developed and maintained core features for the Oak-Web-Application repository, focusing on user experience, accessibility, and robust data integration. She engineered end-to-end flows for content discovery, downloads, and saving workflows, implementing React and TypeScript to deliver responsive UI components and reliable state management. Her work included integrating APIs for user content, analytics, and HubSpot data, as well as optimizing onboarding and authentication processes. Natassja applied rigorous testing practices using Jest and Storybook, expanded accessibility coverage, and refactored code for maintainability. Her contributions resulted in a scalable, testable platform that improved navigation, search accuracy, and user engagement.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

70%Features

Repository Contributions

1,343Total
Bugs
195
Commits
1,343
Features
449
Lines of code
275,926
Activity Months18

Work History

March 2026

19 Commits • 3 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 performance summary for oaknational/Oak-Web-Application. Delivered a coordinated set of user-facing UX improvements, content/resource enhancements, and data integration optimizations across three feature areas, underpinned by targeted testing and refactors to improve reliability, maintainability, and business value.

February 2026

191 Commits • 67 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 performance summary for Oak-Web-Application and Oak-Components. Focused on delivering business-value UX improvements, navigation reliability, accessibility enhancements, and expanded testing/mocks to improve confidence and velocity. Notable deliverables include a new CardListing component, a redesigned Save Button with componentization, and enhanced authentication button behavior. The effort also advanced accessibility (ARIA labels), testing stability (Jest/mocks), and Storybook coverage to speed future UI work.

January 2026

106 Commits • 36 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 performance summary for oaknational repositories. Delivered a broad set of UI, routing, and component improvements across Oak-Web-Application and Oak-Components, with a focus on accessibility, robustness, and maintainability. Key features delivered include Topnav UI Enhancements, Topnav Data Validation and Error Handling, Topnav Link and Data Integration fixes, Core Layout revalidation and error handling, Notifications provider integration, and OakTabs/component enhancements. Routing and data plumbing improvements, including migration from useRouter to usePathname and SaveCountProvider integration, plus test scaffolding updates to improve reliability in Vercel builds. Across both repos, multiple improvements to tests, snapshots, and code quality, with emphasis on performance, accessibility, and developer experience. Key achievements (top 5): - Topnav UI enhancements shipped: underline for active pupil topnav, skip link accessibility, inline banner when data missing, and toast positioning aligned with new topnav - Robust topnav data handling: error reporting for invalid data and ensuring topnav data surfaces on subject listings - Routing and navigation improvements: migrate from useRouter to usePathname; introduce SaveCountProvider; improved navigation stability and reduced server trips - Core layout resilience and testing: added revalidation and error handling; expanded tests and snapshots for core layout - OakTabs and component enhancements: introduced OakTabs component and related UI improvements; updated internal link styling with textDecoration prop; updated snapshots

December 2025

105 Commits • 25 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 performance summary for Oak-Web-Application and Oak-Components focused on delivering business value through robust frontend functionality, accessible UI, and maintainable code. Highlights include the Programme page core with ISR-backed data fetching across desktop/mobile, error handling, and navigation from programme lists to unit pages; an accessible grid-based list layout and TopNav/navigation improvements; substantial testing and QA enhancements; security and reliability updates; and data-model and query schema refinements.

November 2025

44 Commits • 14 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 monthly summary for oaknational/Oak-Web-Application: Delivered and iterated on features to improve pupil-facing data workflows, lesson navigation, and SEO/Accessibility, while expanding test coverage and improving frontend code quality. The work reduces user friction, increases data reliability, and positions the product for better search visibility and accessibility.

October 2025

71 Commits • 27 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly summary: Delivered clear business value and technical gains across Oak components and the Oak Web Application. Key features focused on maintainability, search relevance, and user experience; supporting quality through expanded tests and disciplined refactors. Oak-components received a Storybook refactor for OakDownloadsAccordion, improving story maintainability by extracting the select-all state logic into a dedicated WithState component. The Oak Web Application advanced the Suggested Filters and Matching workflow with getSuggestedFilters, direct AI-assisted and combined matching, and robust edge-case handling. Substantial UI/UX improvements included search layout updates, responsive/mobile refinements, and cleanup of the share layout to remove obsolete references. Quality and reliability were enhanced via direct-matching tests, banner/card tests, broader test coverage, and targeted maintenance tasks (linting, API route naming, test structure updates). Overall impact: faster development iteration, more accurate search/match results, improved user experience, and better telemetry. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Storybook architecture and refactors, React/TypeScript, automated testing and test hygiene, AI-assisted feature integration, accessibility testing instrumentation (pa11y IDs), telemetry/event tracking, and comprehensive code maintenance practices.

September 2025

67 Commits • 27 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 focused on improving subject discovery, search accuracy, and UI reliability across Oak-Web-Application and Oak-Components. Key work included delivering a UI banner on subject listing pages, expanding and refactoring search/matching across subjects, keystages, years, and examboards, and stabilizing data flows for school attribution and banner-related features. These changes deliver clearer navigation, more relevant results, and simplified maintenance with reduced feature-flag complexity.

August 2025

83 Commits • 30 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 (2025-08) Monthly Summary – Oak-Web-Application Overview: Delivered measurable business value with user-facing improvements to quiz rendering and accessibility, strengthened observability and error context, expanded automated testing and accessibility checks, and advanced marketing/campaign capabilities through SSR and banner enhancements. Emphasis on reliability, performance, and developer efficiency through code cleanup and standardized components. Key features delivered (business value and technical impact): - Quiz heading wrapping: Wrapped quiz number and text in a single heading element to improve accessibility and semantic markup, enabling better screen reader support and consistent UI. Commit: 2dc19246d7042407cc9867a56405d37299f280cb. - Quiz questions rendering improvements: Consolidated questions into a single container with proper spacing between number and title and ensured all question elements are wrapped for consistent rendering across teacher view. Commits: 17e8793358484e1ea372da556eaee7db8418a68a, 94516dd2c961e048131bfe265c85d442e6a633ea, cecdd1967c59d7f6aea994cacb9f0eae2bd3451b. - Accessibility/ARIA improvements: Replaced divs with fieldset and legends appropriately, ensured legend as first child of fieldset, and moved aria labeling to button elements to improve screen reader navigation and compliance. Commits: a27d5472f1527956936d40679507b99e921a7041, 5c33a7bcca7156126b5c72b83eca3cddfcd930b1, 260a7fd4b0efde45ff243c63a8fe08faea725a38, e30b314dcbd12b1ca3d4ce80e97e7c60f3c2614c. - Campaign routing SSR refactor and feature-flag rollout: Added campaign page to beta route with SSR and feature flag to move out of beta, enabling faster initial load and consistent SEO; groundwork for broader marketing campaigns. Commits: 585f7d566839610a634bdf0936fb3cb24ea31b1a, 0273c4208dbb17cc5cf6aad6c377f9c9d5aaf775. - Logging and cleanup enhancements: Introduced comprehensive logging for downloads/auth pages and properties, and cleaned up obsolete auth/download flow references to reduce surface area and improve diagnostics. Commits: 52186125608c1f00a6a2e83252e191e46289f91a, fb1a24a3443f525feb41cf82ac1c31272dba672d, eff63d0984e65817a707d7f1ea56b30e33ec650a. - Pa11y accessibility testing expansion: Expanded Pa11y test coverage with additional user pages, updated CI test URLs, and aligned search/campaign tests to improve automated accessibility checks. Commits: 4b02d0bc40341cbd40a136ac9110ce4f31bd592e, a2aced84088e75fd1bad9af8cad9a238a703af0e, 2326fb0ce48875be8da8a3da0c49cab692116fa2. Major bugs fixed (stability, accessibility, and reliability): - Quiz rendering gaps and spacing: Ensured a single container wraps all quiz elements and restored spacing between number and title for consistent rendering in teacher view. Commits: 17e8793358484e1ea372da556eaee7db8418a68a, 94516dd2c961e048131bfe265c85d442e6a633ea, cecdd1967c59d7f6aea994cacb9f0eae2bd3451b. - Vercel headers: Correct country code header key to prevent misrouting or analytics gaps. Commit: cd6f45ccd8495537f6d8f9d69f118a1f016efb99. - Pa11y test URL handling: Removed outdated pa11y URL for taken-down lessons and expanded test coverage to new user pages. Commits: 9cf44cc21705ebe2482027db45d4a2d5d0401c0a, 4b02d0bc40341cbd40a136ac9110ce4f31bd592e, a2aced84088e75fd1bad9af8cad9a238a703af0e. - Accessibility structural adjustments: Reworked fieldset/legend structure and related tests to align with accessibility best practices. Commits: a27d5472f1527956936d40679507b99e921a7041, 5c33a7bcca7156126b5c72b83eca3cddfcd930b1, 260a7fd4b0efde45ff243c63a8fe08faea725a38. - Test reliability and UI stability: Fix navigation mocks, mobile alignment, and element keys to improve test stability and UI consistency. Commits: 8281b0290dfb51c248e65962d0d3cc28fbd2a1b0, b8843a3527a7767afe795744ec02a54fff446e60, 49d95a2b956018722d1118fe04fd0699ebecccec, 3393042bb198c0ab20368ff45da9a77065825aec. Overall impact and accomplishments: The month yielded tangible improvements in user experience and reliability. Quiz interactions are now accessible and render consistently across teacher and student views, enabling clearer assessments. Accessibility and testing enhancements reduce risk of non-compliance and regressions, while logging improvements improve incident response. Campaign features and banner improvements align marketing capabilities with product UI, enabling faster go-to-market for campaigns. The codebase was stabilized through refactors, linting, and component consolidation, boosting maintainability and developer velocity. Technologies, skills demonstrated: - Frontend: React/JavaScript, semantic HTML, SSR integration, responsive header layouts, component refactoring and reuse - Accessibility: ARIA, fieldset/legend semantics, heading semantics, skip/navigation improvements - Testing/QA: Expanded CI/test coverage, Pa11y CI enhancements, Percy integration readiness, test stability fixes - Observability/Analytics: Enhanced logging, robust error data in responses, reliable video tracking events - Marketing/BI support: Campaign routing/SSR, promo banner schema and campaign page wiring, banner visibility via feature flags Notes for leadership: August focused on reducing risk and improving business-critical flows (quizzes, quiz UI accessibility, error traces), while enabling marketing agility (campaign SSR, banners) and ensuring future-proof testability and accessibility coverage.

July 2025

109 Commits • 36 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 performance summary (Month: 2025-07). Delivered a cohesive saving UX across Oak components and the Oak-Web-Application, focusing on reusable components, accessibility, and reliable UI state management. Key features delivered include a new Oak Save Button System with cross-UI integration, standardized save/unsave behavior across unit lists, exporting integration, and accompanying tests/Storybook; and OakTextInput Prop Precedence Enhancement to ensure user-provided props take priority over defaults. Saving state orchestration was implemented with isSaving in the useSave hook and propagated to optionality cards, My Library save buttons, and OakSaveButton usage in My Library. Additional UI refinements covered mobile header adjustments, mobile/desktop filter improvements, and ongoing maintenance work (schema and Oak components bumps).

June 2025

79 Commits • 38 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 performance summary for Oak Web/Application and Oak Components. Focused on delivering business-value features, stabilizing deployment and data workflows, increasing UI consistency, and expanding test coverage. Key outcomes include restoring hosting/deployment reliability with Netlify folder reintegration, strengthening user lifecycle integrity by creating users on save with sourceApp origin, and preventing incorrect origin assignment when sourceApp is unknown. Implemented curriculum downloads with cohort-aware visibility, a reusable CurriculumDownloadBanner, and enhanced curriculum download queries using pathway slug and refreshed timing. Updated registration/signup UI to reflect current design, and removed legacy UI elements to reduce maintenance surface. Improved error handling and reporting coverage, added OakToast-based feedback in sharing and download flows, and introduced feature-flag controlled georestricted buttons. Completed widespread code-quality improvements, dependency bumps, and test refactors to boost maintainability and confidence in releases.

May 2025

154 Commits • 44 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly performance highlights focused on delivering core features for content access, saving workflows, and a more robust, scalable codebase, while enabling controlled rollout of user-facing features and strengthening reliability through improved test coverage and CI hygiene. Key outcomes include enhanced content retrieval, streamlined saved units management, and richer analytics—driving engagement and operational efficiency for our Oak platforms.

April 2025

87 Commits • 39 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 performance highlights for Oak-Web-Application and Oak-Components. Delivered feature-rich releases, reliability improvements, and enhanced developer tooling that directly support business value. Key achievements include: • Query Versioning Updates – standardized MV-related versions across queries to reduce migration risk and improve data integrity, with commits ff862ef7c76d1844ef5e0ab43b30829a08e48b01 and b76348643fa3935e7800e6c117f45e51b159c85f. • Codegen Tooling Update – integrated code generation into the CI/workflow to speed up scaffolding and reduce drift (commit 9d79942186ced632f60c543c8a5f9ce45299252e). • Test Suite Improvements – expanded Percy validation and updated outputs to increase UI confidence (commits b4dc81f567f1f1fde3d60a4a24d3c311299d368d, 95645b158e11a64ef6b6b80c895a811074694c41, c858213c9ec2d8c5c51f43050ee373a9caf2dd3b). • Unit/Lesson Saving Enhancements – introduced stubbed save functionality and feature-flagged save controls for unit listings and lesson listings to enable staged UX changes (commits d5f5cf201fb9455c3542f13f59b7ee51a086e987, 66897c0783e1089d0a7a1346dd8367179934a665, 281ebb2af7c5a0b013bf6069a2db8609ca07e491, 1a99682da58a76544dc2715949e43fea0a5cb7a1). • Slug-based Unit Downloads – fetched unit downloads using slugified unit titles for accuracy (commit 3dedd14d6bdc450bea953c9e8bde1108e8f222cf). • Accessibility and UI Polishes – implemented ARIA labels on save buttons and focus/spacing improvements to improve usability and accessibility (commits 98ed3159187d337dff6d687cf088d5cad145d78b, 06df1f5284b22876746b55e85833805a7436db0b, 9f5cb47135fafa3d9478e9d2e04dc2acda380345).

March 2025

83 Commits • 23 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025: Delivered measurable business value through improved discovery, personalization, and platform reliability. Key features and fixes landed across Oak-Web-Application and Oak-Components, with a focus on SEO, API enablement, UI/UX quality, and infrastructure readiness to accelerate shipping and reduce support toil.

February 2025

52 Commits • 10 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 performance summary: Delivered a comprehensive UI refactor and componentization for Oak-Web-Application, fixed critical UI bugs, improved downloads/lesson sequencing, enhanced data handling and test coverage, and advanced registration/onboarding UX. These efforts reduced time-to-delivery, improved user consistency, and strengthened instrumentation and maintainability across Oak-Web-Application and Oak-Components.

January 2025

60 Commits • 13 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025: Focused on stabilizing the download UX, hardening HubSpot integration, delivering UI modernization with Oak primitives, expanding onboarding and test coverage, and optimizing the AVO download flow. These efforts improved user-perceived performance, reliability of data flows, and engineering maintainability across Oak-Web-Application and Oak-Components.

December 2024

24 Commits • 13 Features

Dec 1, 2024

Month: 2024-12 | Oak-Web-Application (oaknational/Oak-Web-Application) Overview: - Delivered a refined download experience, stabilized tests, and improved code quality across the repository. Implementations emphasize user-facing UX, maintainability, and reliable CI through better test coverage and code cleanup. Key features delivered: - Unit Download Button Enhancements: component-based refactor, feature flag, slug-based download key, responsive sizing, and icon updates (with mobile width adjustments). - Download Info Banner: added on download with neutral styling for consistent UX. - New Tag and Button Copy: added new tag and updated download button copy for clarity. - Onboarding Feature: require onboarding step to ensure users complete onboarding flow before certain actions. - AVO Branch Addition: added avo branch in repository groundwork. - Sign Up Page Update: updated registration page for improved flow. - Asset/Version: Use Latest MV Version and UV ID in File Names: updated naming to reflect latest versioning. - Refactors: - Remove Duplication in Existence Checks: combined unit and lesson checks to reduce duplication. - Consolidate Download Link Generation: unified link logic for unit and lesson downloads. - Code Hygiene: - Rename File and Remove Diego Logs: clarity and removing unnecessary logs. Major bugs fixed: - Test and environment: fix test imports and environment issues to stabilize CI. - UI/Icon Cleanup: fix fallback icon for subject categories and remove an unused icon from a long-text button. - Testing Mocks: fix mock implementation and standardize mock slug usage; fix test import paths. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved user experience for downloads with a more robust, feature-flag-driven rollout plan. - Expanded test coverage and reliable mocks leading to reduced flaky tests and faster feedback loops. - Cleaner codebase with reduced duplication, clearer naming, and easier future maintenance. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - React componentization and refactoring, feature flag implementation, slug-based data handling, responsive design - Test-driven development, mocks, and test suite hardening (unit tests, coverage enhancements, and import fixes) - Code cleanup, refactoring patterns for duplication removal, and CI reliability

November 2024

7 Commits • 3 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Month 2024-11 summary for Oak-Web-Application focusing on delivering teacher-facing download capabilities, securing secret management, and improving developer tooling and code quality. Key outcomes include teacher workflow enhancements, security hardening, and maintainability gains with updated tooling.

October 2024

2 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2024

October 2024 monthly summary for oaknational/Oak-Web-Application focusing on maintainability and correctness of Hubspot form configuration in development environments. Key features delivered: Hubspot Form Configuration Comments for Clarity. Major bugs fixed: Hubspot Form Reference Correction for Teacher Resource Download/Share in Development. Overall impact: improved readability of environment configs, reduced misconfiguration risk, and reliable form references across development workflows. Technologies/skills demonstrated: configuration management, version control, documentation, and DevOps practices with Hubspot integrations.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness93.8%
Maintainability92.2%
Architecture89.6%
Performance90.4%
AI Usage22.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSSCSS-in-JSGQLGraphQLHTMLJSONJavaScriptPropertiesReactSnap

Technical Skills

A/B TestingAI IntegrationAPI DevelopmentAPI HelpersAPI IntegrationAPI MockingAPI RefactoringAPI TestingAPI developmentAPI integrationAccessibilityAccessibility TestingAnalyticsAnalytics IntegrationAnalytics Tracking

Repositories Contributed To

2 repos

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oaknational/Oak-Web-Application

Oct 2024 Mar 2026
18 Months active

Languages Used

TypeScriptJSONJavaScriptReacttsxCSSPropertiesGraphQL

Technical Skills

Configuration ManagementFrontend DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAccessibility TestingBackend DevelopmentCI/CD

oaknational/oak-components

Jan 2025 Feb 2026
12 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptReactTypeScriptSnapCSSCSS-in-JStsxHTML

Technical Skills

Component DevelopmentComponent RefactoringFront End DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentProp ManagementReact