Jonathan Garbee
Senior Accessibility Tool Engineer at Deque Systems, Inc
Rustburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Garbee is a Senior Accessibility Tool Engineer with 13 years of experience building fast, usable front-end experiences and accessibility tooling. He has led migrations from Angular to Web Components and refactored i18n at Dun & Bradstreet while driving a 92% reduction in accessibility issues through audits and remediation. A practical full-stack contributor, Jonathan has improved UI and component-level code in high-profile open-source projects including Firefox DevTools and Material Design libraries, and has worked on Laravel and authentication libraries to strengthen backend robustness and test coverage. He blends hands-on engineering—CSS/layout fixes, Web Component authoring, and Electron integrations—with DevOps improvements like optimized GitHub Actions to accelerate delivery. Based in Rustburg, Virginia, he’s known for turning internal platforms public-ready and for experimenting with emerging Web APIs, reflecting a continuous curiosity about what the web can do next.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science Technology and Society, High School Science Technology and Society at Brookville High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
authorizations10
javascript10
ui-components10
laravel-mix10
testing10
css10
app-framework10
user-authentication10
authentication10
ui-design10
laravel10
security10
webui10
uid10
material-design10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
google/material-design-lite
Apr 2015 - Jun 2017
Material Design Components in HTML/CSS/JS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:239 commits, 328 PRs, 333 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the Material Design Lite (MDL) project, focusing on updates and refactoring of the code. Their work involved updating and generating compiled CSS files, which indicates a role in maintaining the project's styling. The user also refactored code, specifically renaming "WSK" to "MDL" across multiple files, demonstrating a commitment to code consistency and maintainability. Further contributions included updates to demo files and components, which shows an involvement in UI component development.
css-jsmaterial-componentsmaterialcssjavascript
GoogleChrome/devtools-docs
May 2014 - Nov 2016
The legacy documentation for Chrome DevTools.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 38 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the documentation of the Chrome DevTools, specifically focusing on the Device Mode and Mobile Emulation features. Their work included adding and updating content related to device emulation settings, media queries, and network conditions. They also corrected broken image links, fixed formatting errors, and made minor style adjustments to improve the clarity and presentation of the documentation. The user consolidated image assets and updated links to ensure consistency.
developer-toolschromedevtoolschrome-devtoolschrome-extension
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