Briana Coppard
Senior Staff Engineer at Zendesk
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBriana Coppard is a Senior Staff Engineer and Group Tech Lead based in Greater Melbourne with 12 years of experience building web applications and leading engineering teams at Zendesk. She combines hands-on full-stack development—particularly front-end UI work and API integrations—with people leadership, having progressed from intern to senior staff and engineering manager roles. Comfortable across multiple languages and passionate about learning, she has a track record of shipping polished demo apps and improving UX through thoughtful JavaScript and CSS changes. Briana brings practical product sensibility from long-tenured product engineering at a single large platform, plus early-career experience coaching youth sports and frontline customer service that inform her collaborative, user-focused approach. Colleagues describe her as a curious technical generalist who balances delivery, mentorship, and continuous skill expansion.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mt Eliza Secondary CollageBachelor of Multimedia(Games and Interactivity) / Bachelor of Computer Science(Software Engineering), Computer Science, Bachelor of Multimedia(Games and Interactivity) / Bachelor of Computer Science(Software Engineering), Computer Science at Swinburne University of Technology
Github Skills (6)
css10
apim10
javascript10
api10
front-end-development9
fetch-api8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/demo_apps
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Briana primarily contributed to the front-end and API integration of a demo application. They implemented UI elements, added features such as POST requests and display formatting, and updated the application's styling. Their work included modifying JavaScript code for application logic, and also updated CSS for layout and visual elements. The user also made API calls, and added translations.
brianac/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Nov 2023
Contributions:11 pushes in 8 years 9 months
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