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1cm	1cm	0.5cm	1.5cm	Ava Gaiety W.	Software Engineer & UX Designer	accessibility ux design software development	ava@wroten.me

gaiety.me | linkedin.com/in/gaiety | Ava@Wroten.me | 443.985.8927

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

Communication, Collaboration, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Initiative

Experience

Web Engineer Contractor

PowerSchool, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Jun 2024 - Present)

Lead and was the primary developer for a greenfield project exceeding timeline and quality expectations.

• 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

Deque Systems (Apr 2024 - Jun 2024)

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

Senior Software Architect

PowerSchool (Allovue) (Apr 2022 - Mar 2024)

Education Finance Technology (EdFinTech) to ensure every dollar reaches every student and faculty.

• 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

Q2ebanking (Jan 2016 - Aug 2019)

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

Eyemaginations Inc. (Rendia) (Feb 2013 - Dec 2015)

Designer and full-stack developer delivering the tools doctors need to better educate their patients through ambitious web applications.

• 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

• 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

Volunteer Work

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

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