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ava@wroten.me |
https://gaiety.me/ | Ava@Wroten.me | 443.985.8927 | Fae/Femme/Faer or She/Her 
13+ years of improving lives through building better web apps
Skills
Technical Leadership
Accessibility
Mentoring
Cross-Team Collaboration
UX Design
Presentations
Mass Refactoring
Documentation
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
Independent Contractor (10+ Months, Current)
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.
Senior Accessibility Tools Developer at Deque Systems (3 Months)
Enhancing axe-core (open source) and other tools empowering web engineers to build a more accessible internet leveraging Typescript and Playwright.
Senior Software Architect at PowerSchool, Allovue (3 Years)
Elixir and Phoenix building functional full-stack EdFinTech getting every dollar to every student and their faculty.
- 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
Ember and Rails building full-stack solutions to school district’s budgeting problems.
- Notably improved application accessibility
- Extended Ember Data to efficiently send batch updates to a Graphiti and Rails API
UI Engineer at Oncue (1 Year)
React engineer with an eye for design and a responsibility for user advocacy for community moving companies.
- 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
Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer at SkillsEngine (9 Months)
Ember and Rails web app features, improvements and mentoring around software vital to closing the skills gap between employers, educators and students.
- Revamped onboarding practices along with employee mentoring
- Shifted company from agile to Shape Up product development
Developer III at Q2ebanking (3 Years, 8 Months)
Ember engineer improving products on multiple teams through Test-Driven Development practices.
- 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
- 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)
Wearing multiple hats to deliver the tools doctors need to better educate their patience through Ember 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
Other Jobs
- Web Admin & Interactive Lead at Cyto Communications
- Web Design & Development Intern at Antharia
Presentations
- Thinking in Components for Scalability discussing Tailwind UI and Storybook at TestJS Summit
- Building the Dream UI Component Library discussing Storybook and web standards at MagnoliaJS
- Achieving A11y Automation Testing discussing Ember, React, Svelte, and axe-core at TestJS Summit
- 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
- Code2College developing curriculums around HTML5, A11y and assisting with interview practice
- Austin Give Camp assisting non-profits with mobile readiness, 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