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title: Ava Gaiety W.
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description-meta: 'Software Engineer & UX Designer'
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- 'accessibility'
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- 'ux design'
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- 'software development'
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author-meta: 'ava@wroten.me'
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###### [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 
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## Professional Summary
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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.
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## Skills
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`HTML`, `CSS`, `TailwindCSS`, `PostCSS`, `JavaScript`, `TypeScript`, `React`, `EmberJS`, `Vue.js`, `NodeJS`, `Express`, `Python`, `Elixir`, `Phoenix`, `PHP`, `Ruby on Rails`, `Docker`, `SQL`, `Git`
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Communication, Collaboration, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Initiative
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## Experience
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### Web Engineer Contractor
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**PowerSchool, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation**
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(Jun 2024 - Present)
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Lead and was the primary developer for a greenfield project exceeding timeline and quality expectations.
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- Collaborated in tech stack choice of `Elixir`, `Phoenix`, `Lit` (web components), `TypeScript`, with a `PostgreSQL` database
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- Hand-crafted dynamic charts with zero-dependency **SVG** pie charts for **data visualization**
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### Senior Accessibility Tools Developer
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**Deque Systems**
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(Apr 2024 - Jun 2024)
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Debugging sophisticated accessibility problems with robust solutions.
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- Adding features and fixing bugs in the _open-source_ platform `axe-core`
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- Leveraging `GitHub` issues for community based communication around bugs and features
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- Updating complex `Playwright` automation tests with improved `TypeScript`
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### Senior Software Architect
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**PowerSchool** (Allovue)
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(Apr 2022 - Mar 2024)
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Education Finance Technology (EdFinTech) to ensure every dollar reaches every student and faculty.
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- Lead `Elixir` and `Phoenix` centric complex features in the _Shape Up_ product development strategy (by Basecamp)
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- Cleanly combined `ExUnit` and `Doctests` to confidently ship well tested code
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- **Refactored** `Alpine.js` into `Phoenix` `LiveView` components
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- Writing **documentation** _architecture decision records (ADR)_ and code patterns
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- **Mentored** juniors in new skills, patterns, and career advancement
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- Improved legacy product built in `EmberJS` and (Ruby) `Rails`
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- Vastly improved product **accessibility** while utilizing **test-driven development** in `Qunit` for effective **refactoring**
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- Extended `Ember Data` (with `Ecto` and `Triplex`) to efficiently send batch updates to a `Rails` API leveraging `Graphiti`
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### UI Engineer
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**Oncue**
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(Apr 2023 - Mar 2022)
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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
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- Reusable components built with `React` with `TypeScript` tested with `Jest` and `Cypress`
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- Cleanly documented in `Storybook` leveraging `Chromatic` for designer approval
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- Consulted internal projects on **accessibility** standards
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- Lead cross-team workshops, leading to a conference talk at _MagnoliaJS_
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### Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer
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**SkillsEngine**
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(Aug 2020 - Apr 2021)
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Full-Stack engineer for a sophisticated web application balancing skills needed for educators to teach students to become employees.
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- Revamped onboarding practices along with employee **mentoring**
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- Shifted company from agile to **Shape Up** product development
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- Shipped complex features in `EmberJS` and `Rails` carefully tested with `fixtures` in `Qunit` and `RSpec`
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### Developer III
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**Q2ebanking**
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(Jan 2016 - Aug 2019)
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`EmberJS` engineer improving products on multiple teams through **test-driven development** (TDD) practices.
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- Maintained a **mobile-first** dynamic front-end flow applications powered by `Command Query Responsibility Segregation` (CQRS)
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- Pitched a `Native Web Component` library with proof of concept
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- Collaborated closely with **QA** on a robust **end-to-end** Testing suite
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- Lead the initiative to push for improved **automation testing** cross-product standards with **Test-Driven Development** (TDD) practices
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- Presented company-wide **presentations** around new initiatives and features
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- Organized internal developer conventions and a public **Meetup** group
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### Senior Web Engineer
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**Eyemaginations Inc.** (Rendia)
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(Feb 2013 - Dec 2015)
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Designer and full-stack developer delivering the tools doctors need to better educate their patients through ambitious web applications.
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- Modernized a `PHP` application to be rebuilt as a single-page application (SPA) in `EmberJS` and `Sass`
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- Launched two enterprise scale applications
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- Video streaming leveraging complex interactions with `HTML5 Video` and `Canvas`
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- Lead user-experience (UX) design initiatives and tech stack decisions
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## Presentations
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- **Thinking in Components for Scalability** discussing **Tailwind UI** and **Storybook** at _TestJS Summit_
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- **Building the Dream UI Component Library** discussing **Storybook** and web standards at _MagnoliaJS_
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- **Achieving A11y Automation Testing** discussing **Ember**, **React**, **Svelte**, and **axe-core** at _TestJS Summit_
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- **A11y First, and Everyone Wins** discussing **Ember** at _EmberConf_, _Ember Dallas_, _Ember ATX_, _Austin Accessibility and Inclusive Design_
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- **Overcoming Impostor Syndrome** at _NW Austin Professional Developers_
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## Volunteer Work
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### Code2College
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Developing curriculums around **HTML5**, **A11y** and assisting with interview practice.
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### Austin Give Camp
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Assisting non-profits with mobile readiness, **internationalization** (i18n) and content restructuring.
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## Education
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### Master of Science in Interactive Media and Communications
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**Quinnipiac University**
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(Jan 2023 - Present)
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### Bachelor of Science in Design & Information Systems, _Deans List_
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**Stevenson University**
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(2010 - 2012)
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GPA 3.9/4.0
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### Associate of Arts in Interactive Technologies, _Stewart_, _Deans List_
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**Anne Arundel Community College**
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(2005-2010)
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GPA 4.0/4.0
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## Hobbies
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- Tabletop Role-playing Games (TTRPGs) having run several 3+ year long campaigns
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- Self-Hosting a `Linux` server with many websites and services running in `Docker`
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- Secured with `Wireguard`
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- Reverse proxied with `nginx`
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## Books
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Relevant titles I've read to better my skills.
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- **Shape Up** by _Basecamp_ (37signals)
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- **REMOTE Office not required.** by _Basecamp_ (37signals)
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- **Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship** by _Robert C. Martin_
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- **Refactoring** by _Martin Fowler_
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