Allie Thu
Director, Accessibility Design at GitHub
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllie Thu is a design leader with 11 years of experience specializing in accessibility, design systems, and inclusive product strategy, currently serving as Director of Accessibility Design at GitHub. She builds the "messy, structural" foundations—processes, patterns, and governance—that make accessible digital experiences repeatable and scalable across large organizations. Her career traces deep hands-on work from visual and UX design through front-end development at Zappos to leadership roles shaping accessibility practice at GitHub. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, she blends creative craft with technical fluency, often translating complex accessibility requirements into pragmatic design and engineering workflows. Colleagues rely on her to turn one-off fixes into organization-wide capabilities that reduce risk and improve product quality for all users.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Marketing, Bachelors Marketing at University of Nevada, Reno
Github Skills (21)
meta10
designer10
component-library10
clarity10
pattern-lab10
react10
ui-components9
css9
sass9
viewcomponent9
documentation8
developer-tools8
performance-analysis8
audit8
lighthouse8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alliethu/alliethu
May 2021 - May 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years
aetcoff/aetcoff.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 10 months
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