Cynthia Swain-sugarman
Full Stack Developer at Ability Central
Grass Valley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCynthia Swain-sugarman is a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 11 years building web platforms, specializing in PHP within the Laravel and Statamic ecosystems. She combines hands-on accessibility expertise—Deque-trained, WCAG 2.2 AA/AAA auditing and axe-core CI/CD tooling—with pragmatic product delivery for mission-driven organizations. At Ability Central she led accessibility-first engineering, embedded regression checks into GitHub Actions, and built a secure LLM-powered RAG layer that sped editorial work while keeping data controlled. Prior experience founding and running a São Paulo digital agency taught her to scope tightly, ship under real constraints, and communicate with non-technical stakeholders. She also professionalized localization workflows at Alconost after volunteering for Mozilla, reflecting a through-line of language and disability access. Based in Grass Valley, CA, she prefers roles modernizing legacy WordPress/Drupal stacks onto Laravel/Statamic and enjoys volunteering at a local animal shelter and laser crafting in her spare time.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Internet Systems, Internet Systems at Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (117)
complement10
python10
firefox-webextension10
firefox-addon10
thunderbird10
django10
internationalization10
mozilla-firefox10
localization10
firefox10
api10
translation10
controlled10
nodejs10
gettext10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mozillabrasil/womoz.mozillabrasil.org.br
Dec 2014 - Aug 2015
Tema WP para WoMoz Brasil
Contributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 8 months
tema
cpswsg/material-de-apoio-mozilla-brasil
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
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