Summary
Brynn Hawker is a multidisciplinary designer-developer with 11 years of experience crafting accessible, interaction-focused products from prototype to production. Based in Victoria, BC, she blends visual design, motion, and front-end engineering—particularly Vue.js and SASS—to create inclusive, delightful interfaces and reusable design system components. As a former co-founder and current Designer/Developer at Scalar, she pairs startup grit with enterprise experience gained at Benevity and Microsoft. Her work often emphasizes practical tooling and process improvements—introducing things like Chromatic to streamline component workflows. She also experiments with backend media tooling, evidenced by a lossy transcoding project on GitHub, reflecting an appetite for systems-level problem solving beyond the UI. Brynn’s background in computer science and visual arts gives her a rare ability to translate research-driven insights into polished, usable products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science / Visual Arts, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science / Visual Arts at University of Victoria
English, French