Ashley Grant
Owner at Tupelo Tardigrade LLC
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAshley Grant is a seasoned software architect and entrepreneur with nearly 20 years of hands-on experience and over a decade focused on cloud and application development. As a former Senior Cloud Solution Architect and Developer Advocate at Microsoft, Ashley helped hundreds of teams adopt Azure PaaS and build AI‑infused apps, including production-grade solutions using Azure OpenAI. A founding member and former community lead of the Aurelia JavaScript Framework, she has deep front-end expertise and meaningful open-source contributions—improving the Aurelia CLI and starter kits used by many projects. She has a track record of turning large legacy systems into maintainable modern applications and running successful training and consulting businesses. Based in Tallahassee, Ashley combines technical leadership, public speaking experience across multiple continents, and a pragmatic focus on developer productivity and reliable production delivery.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Florida State University
English
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
gulp10
typescript10
webpack10
webpacker10
typescript-types10
aurelia10
typescripts10
checkbox9
front-end-development9
jestjs9
cli9
lessc8
bootstra8
configuration-management8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aurelia/skeleton-navigation
Dec 2014 - Jun 2017
Starter kits for building a standard navigation-style app with Aurelia.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 31 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ashley made several contributions focused on Aurelia framework application development, including refactoring and code cleanup. They updated the project's dependencies, including switching from gulp-clean to del package. The user also addressed documentation by adding inline comments to gulp files, and updating documentation. Furthermore, the user worked on rebuilding config files, and updated bootstrap and font-awesome to the newest version.
jsaureliastarter-kitsjavascriptrequirejs
aurelia/cli
Jun 2016 - May 2018
The Aurelia 1 command line tool. Use the CLI to create projects, scaffold components, and bundle your app for release.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 36 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ashley contributed to the Aurelia CLI, primarily focusing on build system enhancements and bug fixes. They added functionality to the webpack build process, including an analyze flag for the bundle analyzer. The user also addressed several bugs related to sourcemaps and less compilation, improving the build's reliability. Furthermore, they refactored the jest test setup and incorporated bluebird configuration.
command-line-toolscaffoldaureliabundletool-use
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