Kaitlyn Mcdonald
Senior Web Engineer at 10up
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKaitlyn Mcdonald is a Senior Web Engineer with 13 years of experience building polished, user-focused web experiences from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has a strong WordPress and front-end background, contributing to high-profile open-source work like the amp-wp plugin where she improved the customizer UX, AMP detection, and URL toggling between AMP and non-AMP pages. Her career includes repeated senior roles at 10up and REDspace, demonstrating reliability across agency and product teams and a knack for shipping maintainable UI-driven features. Trained in Computer Programming and Systems Analysis, Kaitlyn blends practical engineering with thoughtful design tradeoffs and quietly improves developer-facing tools that make publishing workflows smoother.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming and Systems Analysis, Computer Programming and Systems Analysis at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Github Skills (6)
css10
wordpress10
javascript10
google-amp10
wordpress-plugin10
ampl10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amp-wp
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Enable AMP on your WordPress site, the WordPress way.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kaitlyn primarily focused on enhancing the AMP customizer for the WordPress plugin. Their work involved moving the customizer controls to the main customizer, implementing a toggle to switch between AMP and non-AMP versions of URLs, and integrating UI elements with `wp.template`. The user also updated the code to detect if a page can be AMP'd, and made changes to the CSS to improve UI.
reservation-systemwordpress-apiwordpressphpwordpress-admin
kaitnyl/CatSpawn
Nov 2012 - Jul 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year 7 months
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