Gwendy Wendell
Senior Developer at Rocket Communications, Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGwendy Wendell is a senior developer and design engineer with 15 years of experience building design systems, tooling, and workflows that bridge design and engineering for major media brands and enterprises. She led creation of Condé Nast’s Verso— a token-driven, multi-brand design system used across 15+ flagship publications— and has extensive experience shipping Figma plugins, component libraries, and accessibility-driven tooling. As an independent consultant she’s driven large-scale responsive redesigns for clients like NBC Universal and mentored teams to adopt component-based workflows. Her open-source contributions to Sass libraries and responsive tooling (including media-query and modular-scale projects) reflect a long-standing investment in robust, test-backed front-end tooling. Now at Rocket Communications she’s advancing Astro component tooling and design linters that tighten the gap between design intent and production code. A former Berklee-trained musician, she brings a creative sensibility to engineering that informs pragmatic, user-focused systems.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music, Professional Music, Bachelor of Music, Professional Music at Berklee College of Music
Github Skills (10)
rt10
modular-design10
css10
responsive-design10
sass10
media-queries10
grid-system10
singularity10
testing9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
at-import/breakpoint
May 2012 - Nov 2014
Really simple media queries in Sass
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:152 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gwendy primarily contributed to the development of a Sass library for responsive design. Their initial commit established the foundational structure of the library with a mixin for media queries. Subsequent commits refined the codebase by removing dependencies, and addressing merge conflicts. Finally, the user updated the gem to version 2.2.0 and added tests, showcasing their commitment to maintaining the library's functionality and ensuring accurate cross-browser compatibility.
sasscssmedia-querymedia-queriesreally
modularscale/modularscale-sass
Aug 2011 - Aug 2012
Modular scale calculator built into your Sass
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gwendy primarily refactored the modular-scale Sass library by converting the mixin into a function, creating a shortcut name, and adding documentation. They also updated the example Sass file, which involved incorporating the modular-scale functionality and related variables. Furthermore, the user contributed to the project's test files, and addressed merge conflicts, demonstrating proficiency in maintaining and evolving the project's core functionalities and related styling.
sassmodular-scalecssscalecalculator
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