Brittany Walker
Senior Learning Experience Designer at Contentful
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrittany Walker is a Senior Learning Experience Architect and former Developer Advocate with nine years of experience crafting interactive web applications and developer education at Contentful and other organizations. She blends deep front-end expertise in JavaScript and responsive design with a passion for teaching—mentoring at organizations like Women Who Code, Front-End Foxes, and Thinkful. Known for building playful, user-focused projects (see her emoji-based movie app and musicalwebdev.com), she excels at turning complex concepts into engaging tutorials and workshops. Based in Falls Church, VA, she pairs a liberal arts background from UT Austin with hands-on bootcamp training to bridge design, animation, and engineering. Colleagues rely on her for developer community building, conference talks, and creative demos that make learning memorable.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Arts, Government, English, Music and Film Studies, Bachelors of Arts, Government, English, Music and Film Studies at The University of Texas at AustinFull-Stack Web Development Intensive, Full-Stack Web Development Intensive at Thinkful
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Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
user-friendly10
emoji9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
television7
movie7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
brittanyrw/emojiscreen
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
EmojiScreen is a listing of movies, TV shows and musicals depicted through emojis.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 875 commits, 475 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brittany primarily focused on front-end development, specifically implementing new features and styling for an emoji-based movie and TV show listing application. They made code changes to the CSS styles, including CSS updates to enhance responsiveness for different screen sizes. Additionally, they added hide/reveal functionality to movie cards, which was controlled with Javascript. They also updated the styling with additional CSS rules to improve the visual display of the application.
emojimoviestv-showsemojismusicals
brittanyrw/emojipages
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
EmojiPages is a listing of books and plays depicted through emojis.
Contributions:328 commits, 150 PRs, 251 pushes in 1 year
emojiemojislisting
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