updated content, fonts, ats friendly

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/*! normalize.css v2.1.3 | MIT License | git.io/normalize */
@font-face {
font-family: 'Sora';
font-style: normal;
src: url(./fonts/Sora-Medium.ttf)
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Inter';
font-style: normal;
src: url(./fonts/Inter_18pt-Regular.ttf)
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Inter';
font-weight: bold;
src: url(./fonts/Inter_18pt-Bold.ttf)
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Inter';
font-style: italic;
src: url(./fonts/Inter_18pt-Italic.ttf)
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'VictorMono';
font-style: normal;
src: url(./fonts/VictorMono-Light.ttf)
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'VictorMono';
font-style: italic;
src: url(./fonts/VictorMono-LightItalic.ttf)
}
/* ==========================================================================
HTML5 display definitions
========================================================================== */
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kbd,
pre,
samp {
font-family: monospace, serif;
font-family: 'VictorMono', monospace, serif;
font-size: 1em;
}
@ -435,14 +471,6 @@ table {
/* Github css */
@font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 100;
src: local('Roboto Thin'), local('Roboto-Thin'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/roboto/v10/vzIUHo9z-oJ4WgkpPOtg1_esZW2xOQ-xsNqO47m55DA.woff) format('woff');
}
html,
body {
margin: auto;
@ -450,6 +478,7 @@ body {
padding-left: 1em;
max-width: 64em;
color: black;
font-family: 'Inter';
}
*:not('#mkdbuttons') {
@ -481,7 +510,7 @@ body {
background-color: #fff;
padding: 30px;
margin: 15px;
color: #7e8592;
color: #4c4f69;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 1.6
}
@ -508,7 +537,7 @@ h5,
h6 {
margin: 20px 0 10px;
padding: 0;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: 'Sora';
-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;
cursor: text;
color: #be185d;
@ -712,9 +741,9 @@ tt {
border: 1px solid #eaeaea;
background-color: #f8f8f8;
border-radius: 3px;
font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace;
font-family: 'VictorMono', monospace;
font-size: 12px;
color: #333
color: black;
}
pre>code {
@ -751,25 +780,6 @@ pre tt {
border: 0
}
.poetry pre {
font-family: Georgia, Garamond, serif !important;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 110% !important;
line-height: 1.6em;
display: block;
margin-left: 1em
}
.poetry pre code {
font-family: Georgia, Garamond, serif !important;
word-break: break-all;
word-break: break-word;
-webkit-hyphens: auto;
-moz-hyphens: auto;
hyphens: auto;
white-space: pre-wrap
}
sup,
sub,
a.footnote {
@ -805,9 +815,10 @@ sub {
code {
background-color: #fff;
color: #333 !important;
color: black !important;
padding: 0 .2em;
border: 1px solid #dedede
border: 1px solid #dedede;
font-family: 'VictorMono';
}
pre {
@ -1156,7 +1167,7 @@ sub {
h6 img {
position: absolute;
top: 1cm;
top: .5cm;
left: 1cm;
height: 4.5cm;
}

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margin-bottom: 1.5cm
title: Ava Gaiety W.
description-meta: 'Software Engineer & UX Designer'
keywords:
keywords:
- 'accessibility'
- 'ux design'
- 'software development'
author-meta: 'ava@wroten.me'
---
###### [https://gaiety.me/](https://gaiety.me/) | [Ava@Wroten.me](mailto:ava@wroten.me) | 443.985.8927 | [Fae/Femme/Faer](https://pronoun.monster/fae/faer/faer/femme/femmeself) or She/Her ![pfp](./pfp.png)
#### 13+ years of improving lives through building better web apps
###### [gaiety.me](https://gaiety.me/) | [linkedin.com/in/gaiety](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaiety) | [Ava@Wroten.me](mailto:ava@wroten.me) | 443.985.8927 ![](./pfp.png)
## Professional Summary
Passionate developer with _over 13 years of experience_ in web application engineering. **Full-stack** knowledge with _front-end expertise_. Skilled in team **leadership**, **mentoring**, **cross-functional collaboration**. Ready to help take **accessibility** and **user-experience** (UX) to the next level.
## Skills
```Technical Leadership```
```Accessibility```
```Mentoring```
```Cross-Team Collaboration```
```UX Design```
```Presentations```
```Mass Refactoring```
```Documentation```
`HTML`, `CSS`, `TailwindCSS`, `PostCSS`, `JavaScript`, `TypeScript`, `React`, `EmberJS`, `Vue.js`, `NodeJS`, `Express`, `Python`, `Elixir`, `Phoenix`, `PHP`, `Ruby on Rails`, `Docker`, `SQL`, `Git`
**Elixir**: Phoenix, Ecto, Triplex, Exdoc, Live Storybook, GetText
**Javascript**: Typescript, Native Web Components, Ember 8+ Years, React, Vue, Alpine, GraphQL
**Node**: Nginx, Express, commander.js, yargs, plop, Babel, Webpack, Vite, esbuild
**Testing**: Jest, Mocha, Qunit, Cypress, Playwright, Webdriver.io, Selenium
**Accessibility**: axe-core, Storybook, WCAG 2.1
**HTML & CSS3**: Tailwind, PostCSS, Sass, 11ty, SVG/Canvas/Video/Audio, Animations
Communication, Collaboration, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Initiative
## Experience
### Independent Contractor _(10+ Months, Current)_
### Web Engineer Contractor
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project in collaboration with PowerSchool. Solo built a full-stack **Elixir**, **Phoenix**, **Lit** (web components), **Typescript** with a **PostgreSQL** DB app through it's deployment to production where it's live today.
**PowerSchool, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation**
(Jun 2024 - Present)
### Senior Accessibility Tools Developer at Deque Systems _(3 Months)_
Lead and was the primary developer for a greenfield project exceeding timeline and quality expectations.
Enhancing axe-core (open source) and other tools empowering web engineers to build a more **accessible** internet leveraging **Typescript** and **Playwright**.
- Collaborated in tech stack choice of `Elixir`, `Phoenix`, `Lit` (web components), `TypeScript`, with a `PostgreSQL` database
- Hand-crafted dynamic charts with zero-dependency **SVG** pie charts for **data visualization**
### Senior Software Architect at PowerSchool, Allovue _(3 Years)_
### Senior Accessibility Tools Developer
**Elixir** and **Phoenix** building functional full-stack EdFinTech getting every dollar to every student and their faculty.
**Deque Systems**
(Apr 2024 - Jun 2024)
- **Lead** complex feature development
- Documenting ADRs and code patterns established after deep refactoring
- Worked closely with stakeholders to ensure a successful launch of a new enterprise application
- Became a go-to resource for juniors to grow their skills and get their questions answered
Debugging sophisticated accessibility problems with robust solutions.
---
- Adding features and fixing bugs in the _open-source_ platform `axe-core`
- Leveraging `GitHub` issues for community based communication around bugs and features
- Updating complex `Playwright` automation tests with improved `TypeScript`
**Ember** and **Rails** building full-stack solutions to school districts budgeting problems.
### Senior Software Architect
- Notably improved application **accessibility**
- Extended **Ember Data** to efficiently send batch updates to a **Graphiti** and **Rails API**
**PowerSchool** (Allovue)
(Apr 2022 - Mar 2024)
### UI Engineer at Oncue _(1 Year)_
Education Finance Technology (EdFinTech) to ensure every dollar reaches every student and faculty.
**React** engineer with an eye for design and a responsibility for user advocacy for community moving companies.
- Lead `Elixir` and `Phoenix` centric complex features in the _Shape Up_ product development strategy (by Basecamp)
- Cleanly combined `ExUnit` and `Doctests` to confidently ship well tested code
- **Refactored** `Alpine.js` into `Phoenix` `LiveView` components
- Writing **documentation** _architecture decision records (ADR)_ and code patterns
- **Mentored** juniors in new skills, patterns, and career advancement
- Improved legacy product built in `EmberJS` and (Ruby) `Rails`
- Vastly improved product **accessibility** while utilizing **test-driven development** in `Qunit` for effective **refactoring**
- Extended `Ember Data` (with `Ecto` and `Triplex`) to efficiently send batch updates to a `Rails` API leveraging `Graphiti`
- Built an **accessible**, **test driven**, and **mobile first** UI Component library in **Storybook**
- Collaborated with Design and Product to establish a robust design system
- Consulted internal projects on **A11y** standards
- Lead cross-team workshops
### UI Engineer
### Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer at SkillsEngine _(9 Months)_
**Oncue**
(Apr 2023 - Mar 2022)
**Ember** and **Rails** web app features, improvements and mentoring around software vital to closing the skills gap between employers, educators and students.
Design system engineer building an Atomic Design inspired **mobile-first**, **nestable** and **accessible** toolset for engineers to implement in various products in the moving industry
- Reusable components built with `React` with `TypeScript` tested with `Jest` and `Cypress`
- Cleanly documented in `Storybook` leveraging `Chromatic` for designer approval
- Consulted internal projects on **accessibility** standards
- Lead cross-team workshops, leading to a conference talk at _MagnoliaJS_
### Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer
**SkillsEngine**
(Aug 2020 - Apr 2021)
Full-Stack engineer for a sophisticated web application balancing skills needed for educators to teach students to become employees.
- Revamped onboarding practices along with employee **mentoring**
- Shifted company from agile to **Shape Up** product development
- Shipped complex features in `EmberJS` and `Rails` carefully tested with `fixtures` in `Qunit` and `RSpec`
### Developer III at Q2ebanking _(3 Years, 8 Months)_
### Developer III
**Ember** engineer improving products on multiple teams through **Test-Driven Development** practices.
**Q2ebanking**
(Jan 2016 - Aug 2019)
- Maintained a **mobile-first** dynamic frontend flow applications powered by **CQRS**
- Pitched a **Native Web Component** library with proof of concept
- Collaborated closely with **QA** on a robust **End-to-End** Testing suite
- Co-lead the initiative to push for improved **automation testing** cross-product standards
`EmberJS` engineer improving products on multiple teams through **test-driven development** (TDD) practices.
- Maintained a **mobile-first** dynamic front-end flow applications powered by `Command Query Responsibility Segregation` (CQRS)
- Pitched a `Native Web Component` library with proof of concept
- Collaborated closely with **QA** on a robust **end-to-end** Testing suite
- Lead the initiative to push for improved **automation testing** cross-product standards with **Test-Driven Development** (TDD) practices
- Presented company-wide **presentations** around new initiatives and features
- Organized internal developer conventions and a public **Meetup** group
### Senior Web Engineer at Eyemaginations Inc. _(2 Years, 11 Months)_
### Senior Web Engineer
Wearing multiple hats to deliver the tools doctors need to better educate their patience through **Ember** applications.
**Eyemaginations Inc.** (Rendia)
(Feb 2013 - Dec 2015)
- Moved a **PHP** old-school team to a modern framework based approach
- Launched two **Ember**, **HTML5 video and canvas** powered enterprise scale apps
- Lead **UX** design initiatives and tech stack decisions
Designer and full-stack developer delivering the tools doctors need to better educate their patients through ambitious web applications.
### Other Jobs
- Web Admin & Interactive Lead at Cyto Communications
- Web Design & Development Intern at Antharia
- Modernized a `PHP` application to be rebuilt as a single-page application (SPA) in `EmberJS` and `Sass`
- Launched two enterprise scale applications
- Video streaming leveraging complex interactions with `HTML5 Video` and `Canvas`
- Lead user-experience (UX) design initiatives and tech stack decisions
## Presentations
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- **A11y First, and Everyone Wins** discussing **Ember** at _EmberConf_, _Ember Dallas_, _Ember ATX_, _Austin Accessibility and Inclusive Design_
- **Overcoming Impostor Syndrome** at _NW Austin Professional Developers_
## Volunteering
## Volunteer Work
- **Code2College** developing curriculums around **HTML5**, **A11y** and assisting with interview practice
- **Austin Give Camp** assisting non-profits with mobile readiness, **i18n** and content restructuring
### Code2College
Developing curriculums around **HTML5**, **A11y** and assisting with interview practice.
### Austin Give Camp
Assisting non-profits with mobile readiness, **internationalization** (i18n) and content restructuring.
## Education
- **MS** _Ongoing_ in **Interactive Media and Communications** at _Quinnipiac University_
- **BS** (3.9 GPA, Deans List) in **Design & Information Systems** at _Stevenson University_
- **AA** (4.0 GPA Stewart, Deans List) in **Interactive Technologies** at _AACC_
### Master of Science in Interactive Media and Communications
**Quinnipiac University**
(Jan 2023 - Present)
### Bachelor of Science in Design & Information Systems, _Deans List_
**Stevenson University**
(2010 - 2012)
GPA 3.9/4.0
### Associate of Arts in Interactive Technologies, _Stewart_, _Deans List_
**Anne Arundel Community College**
(2005-2010)
GPA 4.0/4.0
## Hobbies
- Tabletop Role-playing Games (TTRPGs) having run several 3+ year long campaigns
- Self-Hosting a `Linux` server with many websites and services running in `Docker`
- Secured with `Wireguard`
- Reverse proxied with `nginx`
## Books
Relevant titles I've read to better my skills.
- **Shape Up** by _Basecamp_ (37signals)
- **REMOTE Office not required.** by _Basecamp_ (37signals)
- **Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship** by _Robert C. Martin_
- **Refactoring** by _Martin Fowler_