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Horizontal rectangular graphic. Dark blue background with orange to pink gradient design elements and text.From right to left: gradient vertical bordertext: GingerKiwi.devThe right third is a swirl and rectangle joined to make a gradient background.There's 9 icons in a grid. Accessibility, React JavaScript,Tailwind CSS, Astro, Figma,C#, MS SQL Server, Obsidian

👩‍💻I am a Software Developer and SEO Technical Content Writer experienced in JavaScript, accessibility/ A11y/ WCAG, design, and UX.

💻 I have 5+ years experience developing WordPress small business websites, blogs and eCommerce sites, and over 10+ years technical and SEO web content writing.

♿ I’m also a former adaptive technology specialist and special educator with extensive professional and personal experience in digital accessibility/A11y, WCAG, ADA, AODA, and the disability community.

I have over 15,000 volunteer hours and am active in the developer and open source communities.🫶 Find me on Toronto JavaScript Slack and Discord, and A11yTO events at Microsoft

My stacks include JAMStack,React, Vanilla JavaScript, Next.js, Astro, C#.NET, SQL, WordPress,📚

🇫🇷 I've been doing Duolingo French daily since January 2022 and 🇳🇱Dutch since January 2023. I'm also doing daily lessons in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh, 🇩🇪 German, and 🇳🇴 Norwegian,

EDUCATION:

two university degrees BA and BSc. computer science graduate coursework.

AREAS OF STUDY:

  • Health and Medical
  • Environmental Science
  • Education
  • Urban and Environmental Planning/ GIS
  • Visual and Graphic Art
  • Social Anthropology / UX / qualitative research and quantitative research

ACHIEVEMENTS and INTERESTING FACTS

  • Olympic torchbearer for my volunteer and community work
  • Canadian Ski Marathon: 36km in 2 days,no poles, at -53C, age 5
  • Lived in a Tipi for 3 months
  • Can legally work in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK
  • Did GIS on UNIX mainframe in university

HACKTOBERFEST 2022 and 2023

An image of @gingerkiwi's Holopin badges, and link to full Holopin profile

JOBS DURING UNIVERSITY:

  • database administrator,
  • outside sales for Microsoft Office courseware,
  • computer lab technician,
  • residence internet manager (supervised team of 12 technicians),
  • varsity events supervisor,
  • retail sales and store leadership
  • Crown land forest regeneration surveyor, and
  • health researcher assistant.

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

  • 10+ years part-time retail sales and store leadership. I started in middle school being mentored by an amazing retail manager with 40 years experience, and held store leadership and management positions from high school through university. I always had top sales results from my customer service and product knowledge skills. I’m looking forward to bringing these skills to customer facing software development and technical content writing positions.

MY FAVOURITE QUOTE IS:

🧶 "Knitting is at its fundamentals, a binary code featuring top-down design, standardized sub-modules, and recursive logic that relies on ratios, mathematical principles, and an intuitive grasp of three-dimensional geometry. ~ Kim Salazar, KnitList circa 1995

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    Ginger Kiwi blog: Exploring software development, accessibility, and design

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    My Dev blog, coded in 11ty: Exploring technology, design, and accessibility

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    Version 3.0 of Yarnhelp.app

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