Ian McBurnie
Distinguished MTS Software Engineer & Accessibility Specialist at eBay
California, United States
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Top SchoolIan McBurnie is a Distinguished MTS Software Engineer and Accessibility Specialist based in California with over two decades of web, mobile and software engineering experience and a 12-year tenure at enterprise tech companies. He leads accessibility strategy and front-end architecture at eBay, maintaining the company’s UI component library, CSS framework, and open accessibility resources like eBay MIND Patterns and MakeupJS. Previously he shaped accessible experiences for Windows 8 launch apps at Microsoft and built rich, scalable front-end systems across Yahoo!’s search, maps and media products. Ian blends deep HTML/CSS/JavaScript craft with pragmatic leadership—running audits, training teams, and authoring reusable patterns that bridge UX and engineering. He brings a rare combination of hands-on component maintenance and high-level advocacy that turns WCAG requirements into developer-friendly tools and libraries. Trained in computer science in Europe and the UK, he quietly favors creating modular, documented solutions that scale across large product ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at University of HertfordshireDiplom-Informatiker, Diplom-Informatiker at Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
English, German
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Github Skills (84)
css-transitions10
bem10
right-to-left10
bem-methodology10
robust10
inline-css10
vanilla-javascript10
javascript10
pattern10
flexbox10
html10
normalize10
stylesheets10
foundation10
typescript10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
makeup-js/makeup-keyboard-trap
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
Restricts keyboard tabindex to a single subtree in the DOM. This behaviour is useful when implementing a modal UI
Contributions:39 commits, 5 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 8 months
modalkeyboardtabindexdombehaviour
eBay/skin
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
Pure CSS framework designed & developed by eBay for a branded, e-commerce marketplace.
Contributions:65 releases, 727 reviews, 958 commits in 5 years 5 months
primerbrandedstylesheetsbem-methodologyinline-css
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