Gretchen Ward
Staff Frontend Engineer at Weave
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGretchen Ward is a Staff Frontend Engineer with a decade of experience crafting performant, accessible user interfaces using JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. She blends a formal design background (BFA in Visual Communication) with deep engineering practice to modernize large codebases, introduce type safety, and optimize performance across web and OTT platforms. Gretchen has led frontend architecture and mentoring efforts—refactoring stacks, improving state management, and teaching the rationale behind technical decisions to junior engineers. Her work spans product-focused streaming apps, government and research sites, and generative-pattern APIs, showing both creative and systems thinking. Based in Washington, D.C., she favors pragmatic automation and scalable component design, and is known for reducing developer toil while preserving design fidelity.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Visual Communication and Printmedia, BFA Visual Communication and Printmedia at School of the Art Institute of ChicagoResident Advisor
Github Skills (76)
css-grid9
filtering9
pagination9
private-repository9
generative9
grid-system9
grid9
react9
layout9
sorting9
layout-engine9
ncbi8
javascript8
datagrid8
datatable8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gward35/gretchenward
Aug 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:54 PRs, 83 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
update
gward35/FinanceApp
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Experimenting with react components to create finance application with ledger, savings goals, and more
Contributions:80 commits, 53 PRs, 74 pushes in 3 years 4 months
goalsreactexperimentingsavingsledger
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