Brian Akpa
Staff Software Engineer at Great Minds
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Akpa is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience crafting accessible, standards-driven front-end systems and design operations for enterprise products. He specializes in building and stewarding design systems and component libraries that favor semantic HTML, CSS custom properties, and minimal JavaScript to improve scalability, performance, and accessibility. At Great Minds he led the engineering side of a new design system and contribution model, and previously drove component libraries and migrations at Disney, Bloomberg Government, and other organizations. His background in visual design and hands-on UI development gives him a rare blend of product-focused UX sensibility and rigorous engineering discipline. He publishes front-end experiments on GitHub and CodePen, reflecting an ongoing commitment to practical prototyping and front-end craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Washington International SchoolBFA Design Art, BFA Design Art at Concordia University
English
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Github Skills (25)
vue8
realms8
spacing8
margin8
component-library7
typography7
vue-tree-select6
foundation6
feather5
grid-system5
behavior5
css-grid5
layout5
user-interface4
layout-engine4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bloombergindustry/fishtank-icons
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years
fish-tankocticonselementsfoundationtank
bloombergindustry/fishtank-colors
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
Fish Tank Design and Component System - Color Foundation Elements
Contributions:10 commits, 19 PRs, 42 pushes in 11 months
color-systemfish-tankelementsfoundationtank
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