Jess Budd
Senior Software Engineer at Firefly Web Design AU
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJess Budd is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years’ experience building accessible, high-impact web platforms across frontend and backend stacks. Based in Australia, she combines deep hands-on skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Vue and Node with a proven track record of delivering measurable outcomes—such as a 15% engagement uplift from a redesigned mega menu and programmatic SEO work that became a SEMRush Award finalist. She’s passionate about accessibility and compliance, having led WCAG audits and driven accessibility improvements across web, app and portal projects. Comfortable shipping product- and marketing-facing systems, she also implements pragmatic infrastructure like feature toggles and public search APIs to support growth and experimentation. Jess contributes to the tech community through mentoring, volunteering and public speaking, and prefers roles at organisations that deliver positive social impact.
10 years of coding experience
Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility, Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility at University of South Australia
Github Skills (54)
javascript10
css10
nodejs10
grapesjs9
page-builder9
perfect9
audiocontext9
elementor9
pixel-perfect9
ruby9
draft-js9
pixel9
drag9
web-animations9
wordpress-plugin9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jessbudd/personal-site
Jul 2019 - Dec 2024
Personal blog built on 11ty static site generator (js, nunjucks, markdown)
Contributions:48 PRs, 446 pushes, 42 branches in 5 years 5 months
static-siteeleventynunjuckssite-generatormarkdown
jessbudd/Developer-Notes
Jul 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 8 months
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