Chelsea Otakan
Product Design Manager at Brex
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChelsea Otakan is a product design leader with 13 years of experience crafting design systems and shipping delightful consumer and developer-facing products at companies like Stripe, Lattice, Sourcegraph, and Brex. She blends hands-on UI and front-end development (React, JavaScript, CSS) with people leadership—hiring and mentoring small design teams and directing cross-functional product squads. Chelsea has a proven track record building scalable component libraries and styleguides that improve developer productivity and product consistency, and she’s comfortable running design sprints through to implementation. Based in Seattle, she pairs a journalism/digital media background with practical front-end skills from early WordPress and jQuery contributions, giving her a unique mix of storytelling sensibility and technical fluency.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Journalism, Digital Media, BA, Journalism, Digital Media at University of Nevada, RenoDesignerFund Bridge FellowFront-end Development Course, Front-end Development Course at Bloc
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Github Skills (6)
html10
theme-development10
css10
wordpress10
front-end-development10
jquery9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jquery/jquery-wp-content
Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
WordPress themes and plugins for the jQuery sites
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chelsea primarily worked on the front-end aspects of the jQuery WordPress theme, modifying template files to remove unnecessary elements such as footers and headers. The user updated the parent theme's CSS and background image references. They also added and modified CSS to implement form styling and search form adjustments, demonstrating a focus on improving the visual presentation and user interface.
jquerywordpresssiteswordpress-themesthemes
chexee/chexee.github.io
Mar 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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