Kia Lam is a Senior Frontend Developer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience crafting elegant user experiences guided by simplicity, structure, and feedback. At Ansible by Red Hat she contributes to AWX, building reusable UI components (notably a Tag component) and enhancing job output and workflow views for a prominent open-source automation platform. She specializes in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, translating design intent into pragmatic, maintainable interfaces and styling improvements. With agency and IT leadership experience plus a BA in English and a Free Code Camp full-stack certification, she combines strong communication and product sensibility with hands-on engineering. She favors people, collaboration, and quality—delivering thoughtful UIs that help users manage complex systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters at University of Virginia
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:111 reviews, 352 commits, 130 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kia primarily contributed to the UI components within the AWX Ansible project. The contributions focused on implementing and modifying reusable components, particularly the 'Tag' component, including CSS and JavaScript code. They also incorporated these components into the job output view and workflow results, indicating a focus on enhancing user experience. Further work involved styling improvements and the creation of new functionality for the existing UI elements.
Contributions:243 pushes, 118 branches in 5 years 3 months
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