Eli Mellen
Staff Testing Engineer at MO
Portland, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolEli Mellen is a Staff Testing Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and building quality and accessibility programs for complex, highly regulated organizations including the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of State. He mixes product sensibility with hands-on engineering—shipping code in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native, and Go—while leading accessibility testing across platforms and assistive technologies. Eli has bootstrapped QA from zero multiple times, authored VA’s first recognized mobile-web accessibility testing guidance, and helped scale the largest federal accessibility team. He thrives at the intersection of compliance, user research, and engineering craft, turning systems thinking into practical processes and clear technical writing. Based in Portland, Maine, he’s exploring roles in consultancies, product companies, and cooperatives that treat accessibility as an engineering discipline rather than a checkbox. A curious problem-solver (self-described “aspiring Ms. Frizzle”), he brings both strategic leadership and day-to-day testing rigor to delivery teams.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Philosophy, Master's of Philosophy at College of the Atlantic
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Github Skills (172)
web-application10
oocss10
writers10
css-library10
utility10
keepass9
javascript9
markdown9
classify9
api9
activitystreams9
security9
extensible9
styles9
password-manager9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
eli-oat/mdi.ninja
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
eli-oat/eli-oat.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:52 pushes in 4 years
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