# Diedra Rater

> Senior Frontend Developer

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/diedra

Frontend engineer with a background in visual design and over 7 years experience building production web applications with a focus on accessibility. Specializes in closely collaborating with design to produce smooth and joyful experiences for all users.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Tandem
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Redwood City, California, United States
• Developed reusable components to flesh out a design system that could be leveraged to build new features faster with consistent branding and a reliable level of accessibility.
• Participated in critiquing designs for accessibility concerns, technical constraints, effective UX,
 and aesthetics; supported a new lead designer after the previous one left.
• Designed and implemented animation and polish to web frontend features, such as loading state spinners and success state confetti, using sprite sheets, After Effects, and Lottie.
• Led a project to investigate if Rive would be a better solution for animations than Lottie.
• Prototyped design concepts to stress test potential features ahead of development.

### Software Engineer @ Khan Academy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA
• Led 6 person cross-functional team to update content forum feature frontend code to be accessible, responsive, and use brand guidelines; triaged QA tickets to prioritize accessibility.
• Created and led an accessibility group to share knowledge across roles and teams.
• Co-led internship program, synced with mentors and interns to ensure the intern’s success, facilitated technical talks and docs for onboarding, and planned a hackathon.
• Mentored software engineer interns and junior devs through code reviews, answering technical questions, and pairing on git, feature development, and debugging.
• Co-led an ERG to increase the sense of belonging for marginalized team members, gave internal talks on inclusion, led book clubs to discuss how our product could better serve under-resourced learners, and ran several social groups to improve team bonding.
• Improved web accessibility level by fixing issues in rounds of audits by an external firm. • Collaborated with designers and PMs to develop new features to spec from designs.
• Investigated and solved technical product issues resulting from cross-team integration. • Rapidly iterated on A/B tests to answer questions for user engagement and retention.
• Improved tools for translation teams to more efficiently localize content.

### Software Engineer @ Q42
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA
• Worked with venture-backed startups in a San Francisco incubator to develop iterative end- to-end IoT prototypes for mobile web and Android in weekly sprints.
• Built internal business tools for tracking incoming projects and employee time off.
• Migrated company website codebase from CoffeeScript to JavaScript for maintainability.


## Education
### Computer Software Engineering
Hack Reactor

### Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Iowa State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/diedrarater
- Website: https://github.com/dierat

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Source: https://flows.cv/diedra
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/diedra/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-01