Abbey Hart
Software Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarAbbey Hart is a Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas with 10 years of experience building polished front-end experiences. She is an active open-source contributor to IBM’s Carbon Design System ecosystem, improving React components, accessibility, focus management, and UI behavior across high-profile repos like carbon and the design language website. Abbey’s work shows a practical balance of bug-fixing discipline and UX-minded component development—everything from PlayPause controls and video players to comboboxes and selectable tiles. She has a knack for subtle, user-facing improvements (for example, fixing disabled-tab content switching and outline styling) that materially raise product quality. Comfortable in design-system-driven workflows, Abbey combines a front-end focus with an appreciation for maintainability and inclusive interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
accessibility10
image-gallery10
javascript10
acc10
accessibilityservice10
ui-components10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
ui-design10
system10
uid10
front-end-development10
sys10
acessibility10
react10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/design-language-website
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
IBM Design Language website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 12 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Abbey primarily contributed to the user interface and components of the IBM Design Language website. Their commits demonstrate work on various React components, including the PlayPauseButton, HomepageVideo, NonLatinScripts, and HomepageTile, incorporating Carbon Design System components and icons. The contributions involve updating existing components, integrating new icons from @carbon/icons-react, and merging code changes, indicating active involvement in maintaining and updating the website's front-end elements.
language-designibm
carbon-design-system/carbon
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 361 reviews, 196 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Abbey primarily focused on addressing bugs related to the `carbon-design-system/carbon` repository's tab components, particularly those involving disabled tabs and content switching. They implemented fixes to ensure proper outline styling and addressed issues where the tab content would switch when disabled. Furthermore, the user contributed to resolving UI-related problems, such as updating listbox selection handlers, and adding functionality to dropdown and combobox components. Their work also included making focus management improvements and addressing accessibility issues in several components, including selectable tiles and loading states.
reactjavascriptdesign-systemibmdesign-systems
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