Anna Wen
Front End Developer at IBM
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnna Wen is a Front End Developer based in the New York City area with six years of experience building polished, accessible user interfaces for large-scale products. Currently at IBM, she contributes to the Carbon Design System and carbon-for-ibm-dotcom, improving UI components, accessibility focus behavior, and theming—work that impacts a widely used open-source design system originating at IBM. Her background spans agency and in-house roles where she shipped consumer-facing redesigns and award-winning interactive features, giving her a strong mix of product-driven design sensibility and engineering discipline. Comfortable across HTML, CSS, and React ecosystems, she pairs iterative component work with attention to UX details like modals, time pickers, and sliders. Notably, she began in roles that combined site ownership and operations, which contributes to her practical, end-to-end perspective on web delivery.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, High School, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Brooklyn Technical High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Barnard College
Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
scs10
react10
sc10
ui-components10
html9
css9
web-components8
storybook7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-for-ibm-dotcom
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Carbon for IBM.com is based on the Carbon Design System for IBM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 524 reviews, 834 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Anna's contributions primarily focused on front-end development, specifically implementing and modifying UI components within the `carbon-for-ibm-dotcom` repository. This is evidenced by commits that changed code within the `packages/react` and `packages/styles` directories, modifying component-specific files, and story files used in Storybook. Further evidence shows the user was actively working on `expressive-theme-carbon` feature, contributing to the styles files.
lit-elementreactlitweb-componentscss
carbon-design-system/carbon
Jan 2020 - May 2022
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:124 reviews, 6 commits, 72 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Anna's contributions focused on enhancing the UI of the Carbon Design System, specifically implementing and updating UI components. They updated icons in the time picker component, refactored the progress indicator to use Carbon icons and made changes to ensure the modal content is rendered properly. Additionally, the user worked on adjusting the focus of elements within the Modal component and made changes to add a slider.
reactjavascriptdesign-systemibmdesign-systems
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