Jack Sharkey
Staff Engineer at Red Ventures
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Sharkey is a Staff Engineer and accessibility-focused technologist with 11 years of experience building inclusive, scalable web experiences. He leads accessibility strategy and tooling at Red Ventures, having implemented org-wide automated scanning across 200+ assets and authored internal standards that shaped company-wide compliance. Jack blends hands-on front-end architecture—Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind—with program leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional design system initiatives to balance performance, security, and accessibility. A member of the IAAP studying for WAS certification, he also publishes tools for the community (css-init) and is developing AccessibilityHub.org to centralize learning resources. He pairs business-minded product thinking from a BBA in Marketing with deep ARIA, WCAG, and assistive-technology expertise, often acting as the go-to SME for legal and engineering stakeholders. Based in Asheville, NC, Jack is known for turning accessibility policy into practical developer workflows and measurable remediation progress.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Business Administration - Concentration in Marketing, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Business Administration - Concentration in Marketing at Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Github Skills (17)
intellisense9
prototyping9
sass-framework8
intelligent8
tailwind8
prototypes8
css8
responsive8
javascript7
tailwindcss7
web-development7
frontend6
vscode6
vscode-extension6
tooling6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sir-sharkey/css-init
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:35 releases, 157 commits, 93 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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