Camille Villa
Software Engineer at Skylight
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCamille Villa is a full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building accessible, multilingual web applications and discovery interfaces for cultural and civic institutions. Currently at Skylight, she helps government and public-sector teams deliver user-centered digital services, drawing on prior tech leadership at Stanford where she led an API-first Rails app focused on mobile-first design and search workflows. An active open-source contributor, Camille has contributed front-end and back-end improvements to well-known projects like Blacklight and Mirador, enhancing discovery UX, theming, and accessibility. Her background in libraries, archives, and museums informs a specialty in search & discovery, IIIF viewers, and tooling for digital collections. She also mentors developers and has taught full‑stack web development, pairing hands-on coding with community building and contributor onboarding. Based in San Jose, Camille combines humanities training with technical depth, making her adept at translating complex archival needs into pragmatic software.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Deerfield AcademyBA, History, BA, History at University of California, BerkeleyFull-Stack Web Development Intensive, Full-Stack Web Development Intensive at Dev BootcampComputer Science, Computer Science at City College of San Francisco
English
Github Skills (16)
uid10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
rails10
material-ui10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
blacklight10
react10
ruby10
solr9
css9
iiif8
annotations8
annotate8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ProjectMirador/mirador
Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
An open-source, web-based 'multi-up' viewer that supports zoom-pan-rotate functionality, ability to display/compare simple images, and images with annotations.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 29 reviews, 131 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Camille primarily contributed to the user interface of the Mirador project. Their work included implementing new features, such as loading thumbnails in windows and making icons respond to light and dark themes. They also made styling adjustments, setting form controls and links to utilize secondary colors and applying theme colors to the export dialog, and general improvements and bug fixes to UI elements.
openseadragonrotateannotationsiiifjavascript
projectblacklight/blacklight
Mar 2018 - May 2020
Blacklight provides a discovery interface for any Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr) index.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Camille primarily contributed to the Blacklight discovery interface, focusing on both front-end and back-end modifications. Their work includes implementing modal dismissals for email and SMS notifications, adjusting padding in search results, and adding a menuitem role to dropdowns. The user also made changes to facet layouts and JavaScript functionality, demonstrating familiarity with both front-end and back-end code in the project.
solrindexrails-enginerubyapache
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