Jason Wilson
Senior Software Engineer Design Systems at Zocdoc
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolJason Wilson is a senior front-end engineer and design-systems specialist with over 13 years of professional experience and 18+ years working on the web. Based in Birmingham, AL, he has led front-end architecture and accessibility efforts at Deque—rebuilding component libraries, designing complex ARIA patterns, and scaling axe DevTools to hundreds of thousands of monthly users—and now focuses on design systems at Zocdoc. He combines pragmatic UX sensibility with deep accessibility and testing expertise, having implemented cross-browser CI test improvements for axe-core and end-to-end suites that reduced flakiness. An active open-source contributor, he built and refined a JavaScript currency library and contributed tooling and test automation to prominent accessibility projects. Colleagues rely on him to turn accessibility standards into reusable, production-ready UI primitives that improve developer onboarding and real-world testing.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Samford University
Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
javascript10
ax10
currency10
test-automation10
testing10
cicd9
qunit9
appveyor7
k7
git7
jestjs6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
scurker/currency.js
May 2013 - Jan 2023
A javascript library for handling currencies
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 32 reviews, 454 commits in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development of a JavaScript library for handling currencies. Their work included adding the initial version of the library and incorporating examples to showcase its functionality. The user also fixed issues with multiplication and division, addressed rounding concerns, and improved the library's overall functionality and stability. They also implemented features to enhance the library's versatility, such as the ability to format values using different patterns and currency symbols.
javascriptcurrency-valuesjavascript-librarymoneycurrency
dequelabs/axe-core
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits, 21 PRs, 112 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the automated testing infrastructure for the `axe-core` project. They modified existing test files to accommodate changes, added tests to cover new features, and addressed issues encountered in the testing pipeline. The user also updated test configurations, and improved integration test coverage, with a particular focus on cross-browser compatibility and platform-specific behaviors. This includes addressing test flakiness and ensuring proper test execution in CI environments, particularly for IE and AppVeyor.
accessibilityui-testingaxea11y
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