Carrie Forde
Senior Software Engineer at Valon
California, United States
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Top SchoolCarrie Forde is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with 11 years of experience building performant, accessible front-end experiences for large-scale web applications. She specializes in UI development using modern JavaScript (ES6+), React and Angular, and applies methodologies like Atomic Design to keep code maintainable and testable. Carrie has led full-featured consumer app builds and migrations—improving test coverage from 45% to over 80% and boosting page speed indexes by hundreds of percent—while also owning tech selection and third‑party integrations. She mentors teams, creates reusable TypeScript/React package templates, and embeds accessibility and analytics into development workflows. A curious communicator, she shares learnings via talks and writing, blending hands-on implementation with a knack for translating business needs into technical requirements.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Frontend Engineer, Web Development, Frontend Engineer, Web Development at Bov Academy of Programming and InnovationBachelor of Arts (BA), Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies at University of Wisconsin-MadisonAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Graphic & Interactive Design, GPA 3.98, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Graphic & Interactive Design, GPA 3.98 at Foothill CollegeUniversity of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County
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Github Skills (31)
wordpress-themes10
wordpress10
codepen10
wordpress-plugin10
elearning9
gutenberg9
tailwindcss9
php9
gatsbyjs8
wordpress-api8
javascript8
underscores7
react7
webpack6
npm6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
carrieforde/Aurora-Theme
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
A clean, modern React-powered WordPress theme.
Contributions:133 commits, 42 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
wordpressreactwordpress-themeclean
carrieforde/alcatraz-child
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 10 months
childchild-theme
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