Ames Plant

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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Ames Plant is a Lead Front-End Engineer focused on accessible, user-centered web experiences with ten years of experience and a background that began in education. He blends deep React and front-end expertise with hands-on work in .NET Core and Django/Python, frequently crossing front/back boundaries to ship pragmatic solutions. At 10up and in notable open-source projects like WooCommerce and ElasticPress he has driven accessibility improvements—adding ARIA attributes, screen-reader announcements, and more inclusive UI components—to improve real-world ecommerce and search experiences. His teaching background informs a collaborative approach: breaking complex projects into teachable, prioritized tasks and advocating for clarity in both code and UX. Outside work he’s a lifelong tinkerer (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, iOS apps) who brings that maker curiosity into production engineering. Based in Minneapolis, he balances technical leadership with hands-on coding and a penchant for cycling, dog walks, and skate skiing.

10 years of coding experience

11 years of employment as a software developer

The University of Arizona

M Ed Computer Technology in Education, M Ed Computer Technology in Education at Lesley University

Full Stack Developer Web Development, Full Stack Developer Web Development at Dev Bootcamp

MSM Management, MSM Management at Cardinal Stritch University

Github Skills (17)

accessibility10

woocommerce10

javascript10

wordpress10

php10

front-end-development10

html10

elasticsearch8

elasticsearch-api8

elasticsearchquery8

aws-elasticsearch8

css8

amazon-elasticsearch8

ui-design7

web-frontend7

Programming languages (3)

JavaScriptPHPPython

Github contributions (5)

10up/ElasticPress

Aug 2020 - Oct 2020

A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months

Contributions summary:Ames primarily focused on front-end development within the WordPress-plugin, specifically making updates to facets and autosuggest features. These changes included replacing anchor tags with labels in the facets widget, and modifying the autosuggest functionality. The user also addressed user interface elements within the WordPress plugin, ensuring compatibility. The work involved changes to the `dist/js/autosuggest-script.min.js` and `includes/classes/Feature/Facets/Widget.php` files.

queryintranetquery-enginewp-querywordpress-api

woocommerce/woocommerce

Jul 2024 - Dec 2024

A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.

Role in this project:

Accessibility Specialist

Contributions:14 reviews, 14 PRs, 107 comments in 5 months

Contributions summary:Ames primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility of the WooCommerce platform. Their contributions involved adding ARIA labels and attributes to various elements, including buttons, pagination, tables, and navigation menus. They also implemented screen reader announcements for variation resets and improved the visual presentation of required fields, significantly improving the user experience for users with disabilities. These changes touched upon multiple templates and JavaScript files.

ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp

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