Diane Ko
Senior Design Engineer at Vanta
Hayward, California, United States
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Top SchoolDiane Ko is a Senior Design Engineer with 9 years of front-end experience specializing in accessibility, design systems, and usable, inclusive user experiences. She has led cross-functional accessibility initiatives at Airbnb and Etsy—building tooling, documentation, and training that embedded accessibility practices into product teams and design systems. Diane combines hands-on implementation (React/TypeScript, Preact, SCSS, php/mustache) with program-level leadership, having proposed and executed roadmaps, run accessibility audits to WCAG 2.2 AA, and managed engineers and contractors. Her background spans consumer products to enterprise features at SurveyMonkey and Intuit, where she also architected front-end shared components and accessible UI patterns. Based in Hayward, CA, she’s known for turning accessibility theory into practical engineering solutions and for creating design-tool integrations like a contrast-checker Figma plugin.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (124)
http10
internet10
tabular10
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web-development10
fundamentals10
javascript10
wordpress10
voiceover10
react-component10
dates10
testcafe10
visual-regression-testing10
html10
datepicker10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
backwardok/amp-letter.github.io
Jan 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
backwardok/top-people-to-follow-in-web-accessibility
May 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
followa11ystandardsweb-accessibilityaccessibility
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