Emily Walpole
Frontend Software Engineer - Accessibility (Behance) at Adobe
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEmily Walpole is a frontend software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in web accessibility and user-centered design, currently improving Behance.net to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards. She blends hands-on development in Vue, TypeScript, SASS, and PHP with process work—writing documentation, integrating accessibility tooling, and mentoring peers—to make large-scale web features accessible to millions. At Adobe she led the accessibility overhaul of the Project Editor (used since 2020), audits features with keyboard and VoiceOver, and maintains Storybook as a testing and accessibility resource. Her background spans full-stack development, developer documentation for Adobe.io, rapid prototyping across AR/VR and mobile, and enterprise WordPress work for the Bank of Canada. Emily holds a Master’s in Human–Computer Interaction and brings research-driven design thinking to pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Outside of work she balances technical curiosity with hands-on hobbies like knitting, gardening, and hiking—reflecting a practical, detail-oriented approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Science Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Science Software Engineering at Western UniversityMaster of Computer Science (M.C.S.) Human-Computer Interaction (Computer Science), Master of Computer Science (M.C.S.) Human-Computer Interaction (Computer Science) at Carleton University
Github Skills (69)
adobe-analytics10
gatsby10
fastest10
photoshop10
zeplin10
pdf10
adobe-experience-manager10
graphql10
aem10
rad10
react10
compiler9
adobe-sign9
authentication9
wysiwyg9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ewalpole/open-api-tests
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
A place for testing open api specs on Adobe I/O Website
Contributions:10 PRs, 13 pushes, 7 branches in 13 days
placeapiadobe-experience-manageradobetesting
AdobeAtAdobe/developer-documentation
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
templatedocumentation-templatedeveloper-documentation
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