Kyala Shea
Web Director at Guilford Press
Fort Bragg, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorKyala Shea is a Web Director with 11 years in web leadership and nearly three decades at Guilford Press, where she progressed from fulfillment associate to director, shaping the publisher’s digital presence. She combines a physics and botanical informatics background with practical web systems expertise to design elegant, user-centered solutions for complex publishing workflows. Passionate about tech for social good, Kyala excels at aligning product, engineering, and editorial teams so each individual can contribute their strengths. She is known for pragmatic problem-solving, maintaining long-term operational stability while driving iterative improvements. Based in Fort Bragg, CA, she brings institutional memory and a rare continuity of perspective that helps anticipate downstream impacts of technical decisions. Her approach emphasizes simplicity, inclusivity, and durable systems over flashy one-offs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
archived7
risk-assessment6
project-management6
climate-change5
technical-writing5
web-application5
scanner5
jekyll4
python4
react4
documentation4
usability3
monitoring3
open-source2
website-monitoring2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
DataRescueSFBay/DataRescueSFBay-Event
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 days
start-here
suchthis/webapp
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 2 branches in 2 years
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