Amber Armstrong
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Summary
Enthusiastic Frontend Developer with 7+ years of experience building software for millions of users. Impact-driven with a unique combination of technical expertise and an eye for UI/UX. Passionate about building accessible software.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Digital Accessibility Specialist
Scotiabank
06.2023 - Current
- Improve the digital banking experience for 25 million customers
- Raise the craft of designers, developers, and senior accessibility experts by providing technical leadership
- Educate and empower designers, developers, and QA testers with tooling, code samples, and documentation
Senior Software Engineer
Achievers
01.2022 - 05.2023
- Led the React design system component library, using agile methodologies
- Handled deployments, versioning, and updates across a micro-systems architecture
- Extended and maintained the design system through refactoring, adding custom components, and developing new features (e.g.: theme engine, white labeling)
- Remediated the component library to WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, under a tight deadline
Senior Software Engineer
Xapo Bank
11.2020 - 08.2021
- Developed new features in a crypto banking application (e.g.: bulk payments, repeating recent transactions, converting currencies, and split payments)
- Maintained code quality through pull request reviews
- Improved user experience by optimizing code performance
- Shipped quickly in a high-pace startup environment
Lead Frontend Developer
Level Access
01.2020 - 08.2020
- Led the team that remediated a job site application to meet WCAG 2.0 AA conformance standards
- Developed custom accessible solutions (modal focus trap, accessible date picker)
- Mitigated regression risks by writing unit tests and e2e tests
Frontend UX Developer
Shopify
10.2017 - 12.2019
- Evolved the Polaris design system by refactoring existing components and developing new accessible components, (e.g.: global chrome, dual thumb range slider, toast, drawer, data table, modal dialog, popover, etc)
- Increased overall code coverage to 90% by writing over 100 unit tests
- Wrote technical documentation for other developers
- Improved the Shopify admin by migrating a section from Rails to React, developing the filters and search section, and developing a customer dashboard
- Improved accessibility of components
- Won a Hack Days competition with an SEO tool that was ultimately built into the admin section
- Contributed to the Shopify Engineering blog
- Mentored a Dev Degree university student
Frontend Developer
MoneyMover
01.2017 - 08.2017
- Built money transfer features (e.g.: bulk payments and currency conversion)
- Streamlined the onboarding and KYC experience
- Improved the user experience of client-side form error handling
- Implemented location detection
- Maintained and upgraded packages
Lead Frontend Developer
Ecommerce Startup
07.2016 - 12.2016
- Built the entire frontend portion of an ecommerce startup app
- Handled API calls and integration with the backend
- Developed the frontend functionality
- Built the UI to pixel perfection, according to designs
Education
Web Technology -
John Abbott College
Computer Science / Creative Arts -
John Abbott College
Skills
- JavaScript (ES6)
- TypeScript
- React
- React Query
- React Testing Library
- Jest
- Enzyme
- Mocha
- Cypress
- Percy
- SASS
- Tailwind
- Styled Components
- Redux
- Redux Saga
- Nodejs
- GraphQL
- MongoDB
- Express
- REST APIs
- Git
- NVDA
- WCAG
Certification
- IAAP Certified Professionals in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC)
- Web Accessibility - Deque Systems
Professional Development
- Frontend Masters - Complete Intro to React
- Frontend Masters - Intermediate React
- Frontend Masters - React and TypeScript
- Frontend Masters - React Performance
- Frontend Masters - Functional-Light JavaScript
- Frontend Masters - JavaScript Performance
- Frontend Masters - Deep JavaScript Foundations
- Frontend Masters - JavaScript: The Hard Parts
- Frontend Masters - TypeScript Fundamentals
- Frontend Masters - JavaScript & React Patterns
- Frontend Masters - Accessibility in JavaScript Applications
- Frontend Masters - Functional JavaScript
- Frontend Masters - Enterprise Architecture Patterns
- Frontend Masters - Enterprise UI Development
- Frontend Masters - Developer Productivity
- Frontend Masters - Git In Depth
- Frontend Masters - Introduction to Next.js
- Frontend Masters - Client-Side GraphQL in React
Publications
Shopify Engineering Blog - Building a Data Table Component in React
Timeline
Lead Digital Accessibility Specialist
Scotiabank
06.2023 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Achievers
01.2022 - 05.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Xapo Bank
11.2020 - 08.2021
Lead Frontend Developer
Level Access
01.2020 - 08.2020
Frontend UX Developer
Shopify
10.2017 - 12.2019
Frontend Developer
MoneyMover
01.2017 - 08.2017
Lead Frontend Developer
Ecommerce Startup
07.2016 - 12.2016
Web Technology -
John Abbott College
Computer Science / Creative Arts -
John Abbott College
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