Senior software engineer with over 5 years of experience in full stack software development and particularly skilled with frontend technical skills, user interfaces and experiences, and adhering to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Utilized design, UX, and development skills to create accessible software for K-12 students to take assessments.
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Building complex interactive learning tools as embeddable web components using LitElement and TypeScript.
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Mentoring a junior developer by helping her improve code cleanliness, creating and utilizing components to reduce code duplication and improve scalability, and informing about accessibility best practices.
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Creating teamwide documentation to improve team efficiency and improve autonomy.
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Regularly providing thorough code reviews with valuable feedback to point team members to best practices.
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Focusing on responsiveness of the application and ensuring functionality across varying types of devices.
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Leading design decisions, creating SVGs using Figma, and implementing pixel-perfect frontend changes.
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Building team rapport by utilizing team Slack channels, asking for team consensus when making notable changes, and creating a regularly scheduled collaboration time for engineers to work together.
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Meeting regularly with the accessibility team to ensure our accessibility updates go beyond just meeting WCAG 2.1 and prioritize usability for the user.
Tools: Git version control, Github, Visual Studio, Docker, Colima, Dinghy, Yarn, Vite, ESLint, Rubocop, Jira, Figma, Google Suite, Slack
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Conducted code reviews regularly by examining peer’s code to ensure clean, bug-free code as well as testing the code in the browser to ensure it met WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.
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Achieved WCAG 2.1 AA compliance fully in two products and made iterative accessibility improvements to another product.
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Brought up accessibility concerns at the concept and design-level offering alternative solutions to maintain the vision but in a manner that had enhanced accessibility.
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Completed complex projects with engineers, a product manager, and a designer in an Agile environment consistently meeting deadlines with minimal to no bugs in the finished product.
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Volunteered to teach coworkers entry-level Ruby basics via a Learn to Code working group.
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Collaborated with lead designers to expand upon and significantly modify the design system.
Tools: Git version control, Hg/Mercurial, GitLab, Visual Studio, VIM, in-house quality control system
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Collaborated with a large development team using a variety of languages to enhance and add features to a multi-exam prep web application.
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Achieved WCAG 2.1 AA compliance on a series of web courses by passionately seeking to understand accessibility needs, collaborating with other developers, and setting an example to other developers about how to achieve this goal by helping them individually to understand and implement accessibility correctly. Became the “go-to” person for accessibility questions.
