Amanda Baker
Software Engineer at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanda Baker is a software engineer with 11 years of experience at Microsoft, where she has moved from intern to full-time engineer since 2016. She focuses on front-end development with a strong emphasis on accessibility, contributing notable improvements to the Chrome DevTools frontend such as keyboard navigation, context menu enhancements, and fixes across network and settings panes. Amanda blends practical product-minded engineering with attention to assistive-technology users, making developer tools more usable for people with disabilities. Based in the United States and grounded in a Computer Science degree from the University of Florida, she brings steady enterprise experience alongside meaningful open-source impact. Colleagues describe her as detail-oriented and user-first, able to translate complex UI interactions into inclusive, production-ready features.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.33, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.33 at University of Florida
Github Skills (13)
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javascript10
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front-end-development10
ui-design10
chrome10
developer-tools10
accessibilityservice10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
The Chrome DevTools UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Accessibility Specialist
Front-end Developer & Accessibility SpecialistContributions:15 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Amanda primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility of the Chrome DevTools UI. Their contributions included implementing keyboard navigation for tree outlines, request headers, and the request payload object in the network tool. They also added context menu entries for toggles and show more buttons, in addition to addressing specific accessibility issues in the preview pane, geolocation and shortcut settings, and the network landing page. These changes collectively improved usability for users who rely on assistive technologies.
instrumentationreactjavascriptchromecdp
WICG/window-controls-overlay
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:15 reviews, 19 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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