Cory Laviska
Principal Software Engineer at Font Awesome
New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolCory Laviska is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building design systems, developer tooling, and scalable web experiences from both startup and enterprise perspectives. He founded A Beautiful Site, grew a SaaS CMS to power over 25,000 websites, and created popular open-source projects like Shoelace (serving over a billion monthly CDN hits) and SimpleImage. At Microsoft and other large organizations he led design-system initiatives, introduced framework-agnostic web components, and improved developer DX with custom build and documentation workflows. Cory spans front-end and back-end work—contributing UI accessibility fixes, component behavior improvements, Node.js APIs, and image-processing utilities—while keeping a pragmatic focus on usability and performance. Based in New Hampshire, he pairs hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership and a long record of turning small libraries into widely used tools. A detail that often surprises collaborators: many of his widely adopted projects started as solo side projects that later became core parts of larger ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Florida Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
12,440reputation
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42answers
17questions
twitter-bootstrap
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css
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Github Skills (39)
accessibility10
sequel10
javascript10
twitter-bootstrap10
acc10
jquery10
apidoc10
image-processing10
accessibilityservice10
css10
typescript10
web-components10
ui-design10
uid10
php10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
claviska/jquery-minicolors
Nov 2011 - Nov 2021
jQuery MiniColors Plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 300 commits, 40 PRs in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Cory made several commits focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the jQuery MiniColors plugin. Their contributions included updates to the readme, removing testing margins in the HTML file, and a major update to the JavaScript file for compatibility with jQuery 1.7, touch devices, and bug fixes. Furthermore, the commits included the addition of a 'letterCase' option, general code cleanup, and optimizations to the minified version.
jquerycolor-pickerjavascript
shoelace-style/shoelace
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Shoelace is now Web Awesome. Come see what’s new!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 480 reviews, 3472 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Cory's commits primarily focused on improving the UI of the Shoelace library. They added functionality related to setting aria-labels, enhanced accessibility, and fixed CSS issues, and generally worked on improving the functionality of different components. They appear to be enhancing the overall user experience. They have also made some test updates and improvements.
css-jsdesignsystemlit-elementlitcss
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