Evan Yamanishi
Engineering Manager at Skillsoft
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Yamanishi is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading cross-functional teams at the intersection of product, engineering, design, and accessibility, now based in New York. He has risen through progressive leadership roles at W. W. Norton & Company—where he built the accessibility program, ran an innovation incubator, led the design system, and chaired diversity and inclusion efforts—before joining Skillsoft as an Engineering Manager. A hands-on technologist, Evan contributes to notable open-source projects like the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide and DefinitelyTyped, improving front-end accessibility and TypeScript test coverage. He combines pragmatic engineering with policy and process work to make digital publishing more accessible, and he has a background in music and reader services that informs his user-centered approach.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music at Michigan State University
Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
html10
css10
ria10
gulp10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
wai-aria10
typescript-types10
testing10
type-definition9
build-definition9
dictionary9
user-interface9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/aria-practices
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 22 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide. Their work focused on enhancing the examples, particularly the modal dialog and menubar implementations. They fixed bugs, refactored code, and updated styling, while also ensuring accessibility best practices by incorporating ARIA attributes and addressing HTML validation issues. Several commits involved code changes in CSS, JavaScript, and HTML files, specifically concerning the structure and styling of the examples.
aria-authoring-practicesapgcssauthoringwai
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Evan focused on adding and modifying tests for the `undertaker` and `gulp` libraries, specifically related to their TypeScript type definitions. Their contributions included adding test cases with metadata, demonstrating the correct usage of functions and their properties. These tests validated the correctness of the type definitions and ensured that the libraries' metadata and functions were accurately reflected. Furthermore, they updated existing tests to ensure that the task names were readonly.
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