Homer Gaines
Director Of Engineering Accessibility at Coforma
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolHomer Gaines is a seasoned accessibility-focused design and front-end leader with more than 30 years of practice and over a decade in senior engineering roles, now serving as Director of Engineering Accessibility. Combining a foundation in behavioral psychology and neurology with hands-on UI engineering, he leads design systems, accessibility strategy, and compliance work across enterprise products to meet WCAG and global legal standards. He has built accessibility programs, authored company playbooks and VPATs, and reduced usability issues through review processes and mentorship. Equally comfortable in creative freedom and strict compliance contexts, he blends modern React/TypeScript front-end practices with pragmatic UX solutions. Outside of corporate roles he ran a long-standing freelance studio and founded a Design Donation initiative to support nonprofits, signaling a sustained commitment to inclusive design.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Psychology Behavioral Psychology, B.S. Psychology Behavioral Psychology at Indiana University East
Japanese
Stackoverflow
174reputation
13kreached
10answers
1question
Github Skills (56)
docker10
pixelfed10
microblogging10
activitypub10
mastodon10
effort9
eleventy9
accessibility9
webfinger9
federation9
axe9
wcag9
user-experience9
compatibility8
json7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xirclebox/designdonation
Oct 2018 - Mar 2025
New Design Donation Project
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
design-systemnew-design
xirclebox/mylinks
Apr 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.