Simon Taggart
Principal Software Engineer at SESCO Enterprises
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top expert inSalesforce Development with Lightning Web Components and Heroku Integration
Simon Taggart is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with over 19 years of front-end experience specializing in design systems, accessibility, and component-driven UIs. He has led and owned design systems at companies like Twilio (Product Owner of Paste) and BigCommerce and has shaped enterprise patterns at Meta and Salesforce to deliver consistent, scalable interfaces. An active open-source contributor, his work includes feature and responsiveness improvements to BigCommerce’s Cornerstone theme and pragmatic accessibility fixes—keyboard-focusable links and corrected ARIA/semantic markup—in the Salesforce Lightning Design System. Equally comfortable as a hands-on engineer and strategic owner, he builds practical libraries and tools that help teams ship cohesive, usable products.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (31)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
twilio-labs/paste
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Paste is a design system for designing and building consistent experiences at Twilio.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1697 reviews, 743 commits, 1201 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily worked on implementing and improving UI components within the Paste design system. Their contributions involved adding placeholder files, updating component overviews and navigation, running and fixing ESLint issues to maintain code quality, and developing new features such as a token list page. The user's changes were focused on front-end development aspects, including layout, styling, and component integration for the website.
reacttwilioux-patternsconsistentexperiences
salesforce-ux/design-system
Apr 2016 - Dec 2018
Salesforce Lightning Design System
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 392 commits, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Salesforce Lightning Design System repository by focusing on improving the accessibility and functionality of UI components. Their work included fixing jump links, making component state links keyboard focusable, removing unnecessary attributes from search inputs, and correcting ARIA attributes within example code. They also made updates to address repetition and improve structure in the breadcrumbs component and implemented semantic markup for the docked composer and feeds comments to better align with accessibility best practices.
lightning-design-systemcsslightningsalesforcesalesforce-lightning
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