Becca Lee
Software Engineer at The New York Times
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBecca Lee is a front-end software engineer in Seattle with nine years of experience building pixel-perfect, accessible user interfaces using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and CSS. She brings a rare blend of marketing strategy and technical craft—having driven measurable traffic and engagement gains as a former marketing manager—so her work emphasizes usability, accessibility, and sustainable product outcomes. Currently at The New York Times, she ships user-centric features while collaborating closely with designers, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. Past roles at agencies and startups honed her ability to translate design specs into production-ready code, run compatibility and accessibility testing, and choose libraries that speed delivery. She’s also invested in community leadership, co-organizing Write/Speak/Code to support technologists with marginalized genders and mentoring peers through meetups. Practical, detail-oriented, and communication-first, she pairs a designer’s eye with developer rigor to improve how people experience the web.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Fashion/Apparel Design, Fashion/Apparel Design at Fashion Institute of TechnologyAssociate’s Degree Fashion/Apparel Design, Associate’s Degree Fashion/Apparel Design at Seattle Central CollegeBachelor’s Degree Marketing/Marketing Management General, Bachelor’s Degree Marketing/Marketing Management General at WGU WashingtonCertificate of Software Development Full-Stack JavaScript, Certificate of Software Development Full-Stack JavaScript at Code Fellows
Github Skills (47)
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
visual-studio9
vscode9
scramble8
react6
radium5
react-like4
redux4
python4
backend4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
beccalee123/portfolio-site
Apr 2019 - May 2022
Personal portfolio site built in React
Contributions:37 commits, 20 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 1 month
reactjsreactbuilt-in
beccalee123/word-scramble
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
A word scramble game for our Code Fellows 201d40 final project
Contributions:67 commits, 38 PRs, 42 pushes in 4 months
pythonscramble
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