Hannah Kolbeck
Founder at Alt-Text.org
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolHannah Kolbeck is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building web-first products and leading engineering teams. Based in Portland, she previously held senior and lead engineering roles at Streem and Airship before launching Alt-Text.org, a nonprofit proof-of-concept that crowdsources human-written alt text to improve web accessibility. She combines hands-on engineering chops with product-focused systems design to make accessibility tooling practical and scalable, and believes community-driven contributions are key to widespread adoption. An experienced conference speaker, she foregrounds the limits of AI-generated descriptions and prioritizes context-aware, human-authored metadata for images.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Portland State University
Github Skills (100)
http10
specification10
multidimensional-data10
web-development10
fundamentals10
javascript10
data-storage10
mastodon10
html10
kafka10
serialization10
documentation10
docker10
multidimensional10
css10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
urbanairship/sarlacc-pit
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Library for maintaining a complete in-memory copy of a remote data source.
Contributions:22 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 5 months
data-sourcememoryin-memoryremote-data
hkolbeck/SwearJar
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Chrome extension to help you clean out your mouth on social media
Contributions:4 releases, 3 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
mouthcleanchromesocial-mediatwitter
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