# Heather Friedman > Software Engineer Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/heatherfriedman Software Engineer with a focus on React, passionate about making the web accessible to all. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Crossover Health Jan 2021 – Present ### Speech Language Pathologist @ All in 1 SPOT with TheraTalk Jan 2023 – Present ### Speech Language Pathologist @ Better Speech Jan 2022 – Present • Provide speech-language therapy services to a variety of clients via teletherapy ### Speech Language Pathologist @ TinyEYE Therapy Services Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 • Provide speech-language therapy services to high school students via teletherapy ### UI Developer @ iRobot Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 • Leveraged React/Redux, Node/Express, and a SQL database to create an internal tool that parses through our deployed web pages and runs Lighthouse, a testing software, and saves statistics gleaned in the database to inform stakeholders on performance, search engine optimization, and accessibility metrics. • Implemented Redux as the state management solution for the front end application, leveraging its easy-to-test pure reducer functions, in order to eliminate prop drilling in the application and improve readability and developer performance. • Utilized Recharts, a graphing library that is based on decoupled and reusable React components, to transform statistics stored in a SQL database into visuals that are both visually appealing as well as efficient to use for stakeholders. • Spearheaded web accessibility audits in order to locate accessibility bugs that negatively impact overall usability of our sites, create tickets to track work on these accessibility errors, and improve overall accessibility and usability of our sites by debugging and fixing accessibility errors in vanilla javascript and modern frontend frameworks like React. • Implemented React with its reusable component paradigm to migrate an existing vanilla javascript front-end application into a more modern and highly supported front-end library. • Followed Scrum and Agile methodology for group organization to increase team efficiency, understanding of workflow of project, and decrease redundancy of work. ### Software Engineer @ Equa11y Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Built a command line tool with libraries such as inquirer, chalk, and cfonts to increase ease of accessibility testing for developers and allow for displaying heavily text-based information in a logical manner. • Adopted Typescript for static typing, thereby increasing readability and decreasing likelihood of bugs in codebase by employing its predictable run-time behavior. • Implemented complex algorithms to parse through deeply nested data as well as combine information from multiple sources to allow for presentation of highly useful material to consumers. • Designed tool using Axe-Puppeteer and Axe-Core, robust open-source testing libraries, to allow for increased efficiency of scaling up projects to production level. • Founded and engineered a companion website, written in React, to showcase common accessibility errors and allow users to interact with content related to accessibility to educate the broader community on the importance of web accessibility. • Launched hosted website and custom domain to allow for greater distribution of information. • Developed an extensive knowledge of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 documentation for accessibility testing. • Followed Scrum and Agile methodology for group organization to increase team efficiency, understanding of workflow of project, and decrease redundancy of work. • Product developed under tech accelerator OS Labs (opensourcelabs.io). ### Speech Language Pathologist @ FOX Rehabilitation Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York • Utilized electronic medical record (EMR) software to write detailed documentation regarding evaluation and treatment. • Provided rehabilitation in the homes of older adults with acquired language, voice, cognitive, and swallowing deficits. • Customized individualized plans of care to meet variable needs of older adults. • Developed and maintained flexible schedule to meet needs of patients and caregivers. ### Speech Language Pathologist, Per Diem @ Genesis Rehab Services Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | North Andover, Massachusetts • Undertook varied and ever-changing caseload at a skilled nursing facility on a per diem basis for both assessment and treatment of geriatric patients in short term transitional care as well as long term care. ### Speech Language Pathologist @ Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital Network Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Lowell, Massachusetts • Programmed and maintained low to high tech Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices to allow minimally verbal and non-verbal patients to have the opportunity to communicate. • Evaluated patients based on physician's orders and prepared formal evaluation reports. • Administered outpatient therapy to patients across the developmental spectrum, from pediatrics to geriatrics, for both developmental and acquired deficits in language, articulation, feeding, swallowing, cognitive-linguistic skills, and voice. • Facilitated interdisciplinary care for patients both with the therapy team as well as with the medical team. • Mentored graduate student clinicians to provide education to the newest members of the SLP community. ### Speech Language Pathologist, Clinical Fellow @ Kidz Therapy Services Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Garden City, New York • Provided individual therapy for children ages 2.5-5.5 years old with articulation, phonological, expressive and receptive language, and feeding delays and disorders • Coordinated patient care between disciplines, including occupational therapy, physical therapy, and social work, as well as with other Speech-Language Pathologists to ensure consistent, high quality treatment • Wrote daily notes, progress reviews, formal and informal evaluations, and IEP goals ### Linguistic Annotator @ Brandeis University Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Waltham, MA • Performed linguistic analysis of texts as part of a federally funded research project • Offered the position for high performance in linguistic coursework • Participated in weekly meetings about analytical design of project ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Speech-Language Pathology MGH Institute of Health Professions ### BA in Linguistics Brandeis University ### Codesmith ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hgfriedman --- Source: https://flows.cv/heatherfriedman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/heatherfriedman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13