resume-stylesheet.css

@@ -1,41 +1,5 @@
 /*! 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
    ========================================================================== */
@@ -211,7 +175,7 @@ code,
 kbd,
 pre,
 samp {
-    font-family: 'VictorMono', monospace, serif;
+    font-family: monospace, serif;
     font-size: 1em;
 }
 
@@ -471,6 +435,14 @@ 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;
@@ -478,7 +450,6 @@ body {
     padding-left: 1em;
     max-width: 64em;
     color: black;
-    font-family: 'Inter';
 }
 
 *:not('#mkdbuttons') {
@@ -510,7 +481,7 @@ body {
     background-color: #fff;
     padding: 30px;
     margin: 15px;
-    color: #4c4f69;
+    color: #7e8592;
     font-size: 14px;
     line-height: 1.6
 }
@@ -537,7 +508,7 @@ h5,
 h6 {
     margin: 20px 0 10px;
     padding: 0;
-    font-family: 'Sora';
+    font-weight: bold;
     -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;
     cursor: text;
     color: #be185d;
@@ -741,9 +712,9 @@ tt {
     border: 1px solid #eaeaea;
     background-color: #f8f8f8;
     border-radius: 3px;
-    font-family: 'VictorMono', monospace;
+    font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace;
     font-size: 12px;
-    color: black;
+    color: #333
 }
 
 pre>code {
@@ -780,6 +751,25 @@ 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 {
@@ -815,10 +805,9 @@ sub {
 
     code {
         background-color: #fff;
-        color: black !important;
+        color: #333 !important;
         padding: 0 .2em;
-        border: 1px solid #dedede;
+        border: 1px solid #dedede
-        font-family: 'VictorMono';
     }
 
     pre {
@@ -1167,7 +1156,7 @@ sub {
 
 h6 img {
   position: absolute;
-  top: .5cm;
+  top: 1cm;
   left: 1cm;
   height: 4.5cm;
 }

resume.md

@@ -5,122 +5,99 @@ margin-top: 0.5cm
 margin-bottom: 1.5cm
 title: Ava Gaiety W.
 description-meta: 'Software Engineer & UX Designer'
-keywords:
+keywords: 
   - 'accessibility' 
   - 'ux design' 
   - 'software development'
-author-meta: 'ava@gaiety.me'
+author-meta: 'ava@wroten.me'
 ---
 
-###### [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)
+###### [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
-## 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
 
-`HTML`, `CSS`, `TailwindCSS`, `PostCSS`, `JavaScript`, `TypeScript`, `React`, `EmberJS`, `Vue.js`, `NodeJS`, `Express`, `Python`, `Elixir`, `Phoenix`, `PHP`, `Ruby on Rails`, `Docker`, `SQL`, `Git`
+```Technical Leadership```
+```Accessibility```
+```Mentoring```
+```Cross-Team Collaboration```
+```UX Design```
+```Presentations```
+```Mass Refactoring```
+```Documentation```
 
-Communication, Collaboration, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Initiative
+**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  
 
 ## Experience
 
-### Developer III
+### Independent Contractor _(10+ Months, Current)_
 
-**Comoto Brands**
+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.
-(July 2025 - Present)
 
-Full-stack in a B2C (business to customer) environment on a passionate team.
+### Senior Accessibility Tools Developer at Deque Systems _(3 Months)_
 
-- Quickly resolving to critical bugs in `CSS` (`BEM`) and `Elixir` with `Phoenix`
+Enhancing axe-core (open source) and other tools empowering web engineers to build a more **accessible** internet leveraging **Typescript** and **Playwright**.
-- Co-ownership of the front-end's direction, maintenance and upgrade path
 
-### Web Engineer Contractor
+### Senior Software Architect at PowerSchool, Allovue _(3 Years)_
 
-**PowerSchool, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation**
+**Elixir** and **Phoenix** building functional full-stack EdFinTech getting every dollar to every student and their faculty.
-(Jun 2024 - Present)
 
-Lead and was the primary developer for a greenfield project exceeding timeline and quality expectations.
+- **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
 
-- 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 Accessibility Tools Developer
+**Ember** and **Rails** building full-stack solutions to school district’s budgeting problems.
 
-**Deque Systems**
+- Notably improved application **accessibility**
-(Apr 2024 - Jun 2024)
+- Extended **Ember Data** to efficiently send batch updates to a **Graphiti** and **Rails API**
 
-Debugging sophisticated accessibility problems with robust solutions.
+### UI Engineer at Oncue _(1 Year)_
 
-- Adding features and fixing bugs in the _open-source_ platform `axe-core`
+**React** engineer with an eye for design and a responsibility for user advocacy for community moving companies.
-- Leveraging `GitHub` issues for community based communication around bugs and features
-- Updating complex `Playwright` automation tests with improved `TypeScript`
 
-### Senior Software Architect
+- 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
 
-**PowerSchool** (Allovue)
+### Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer at SkillsEngine _(9 Months)_
-(Apr 2022 - Mar 2024)
 
-Education Finance Technology (EdFinTech) to ensure every dollar reaches every student and faculty.
+**Ember** and **Rails** web app features, improvements and mentoring around software vital to closing the skills gap between employers, educators and students.
-
-- 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`
-
-### UI Engineer
-
-**Oncue**
-(Apr 2023 - Mar 2022)
-
-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
+### Developer III at Q2ebanking _(3 Years, 8 Months)_
 
-**Q2ebanking**
+**Ember** engineer improving products on multiple teams through **Test-Driven Development** practices.
-(Jan 2016 - Aug 2019)
 
-`EmberJS` engineer improving products on multiple teams through **test-driven development** (TDD) practices.
+- Maintained a **mobile-first** dynamic frontend flow applications powered by **CQRS**
-
+- Pitched a **Native Web Component** library with proof of concept
-- Maintained a **mobile-first** dynamic front-end flow applications powered by `Command Query Responsibility Segregation` (CQRS)
+- Collaborated closely with **QA** on a robust **End-to-End** Testing suite
-- Pitched a `Native Web Component` library with proof of concept
+- Co-lead the initiative to push for improved **automation testing** cross-product standards
-- 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
+### Senior Web Engineer at Eyemaginations Inc. _(2 Years, 11 Months)_
 
-**Eyemaginations Inc.** (Rendia)
+Wearing multiple hats to deliver the tools doctors need to better educate their patience through **Ember** applications.
-(Feb 2013 - Dec 2015)
 
-Designer and full-stack developer delivering the tools doctors need to better educate their patients through ambitious web applications.
+- 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
 
-- Modernized a `PHP` application to be rebuilt as a single-page application (SPA) in `EmberJS` and `Sass`
+### Other Jobs
-- Launched two enterprise scale applications
+
-- Video streaming leveraging complex interactions with `HTML5 Video` and `Canvas`
+- Web Admin & Interactive Lead at Cyto Communications
-- Lead user-experience (UX) design initiatives and tech stack decisions
+- Web Design & Development Intern at Antharia
 
 ## Presentations
 
@@ -130,47 +107,13 @@ Designer and full-stack developer delivering the tools doctors need to better ed
 - **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_
 
-## Volunteer Work
+## Volunteering
 
-### Code2College
+- **Code2College** developing curriculums around **HTML5**, **A11y** and assisting with interview practice
-
+- **Austin Give Camp** assisting non-profits with mobile readiness, **i18n** and content restructuring
-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 
 
-### Master of Science in Interactive Media and Communications
+- **MS** _Ongoing_ in **Interactive Media and Communications** at _Quinnipiac University_
-
+- **BS** (3.9 GPA, Deans List) in **Design & Information Systems** at _Stevenson University_
-**Quinnipiac University**
+- **AA** (4.0 GPA Stewart, Deans List) in **Interactive Technologies** at _AACC_
-(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_