Leah Root
Web Services Developer at SUNY Geneseo
Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeah Root is a Web Services Developer with 12 years’ experience building accessible, secure, and user-focused web systems for academic libraries and institutions. Based in Rochester, NY, she leads library accessibility efforts and delivers WCAG-compliant sites powered by WordPress, Omeka, LibGuides, Drupal, and custom PHP/ASP.NET integrations. Her role blends hands-on system administration—TLS/SSL, patching, deployments—and custom plugin and script development to create seamless UX across library and faculty portals. Leah’s background as a founder and theme customizer gives her a practical design sensibility alongside technical depth, enabling pragmatic solutions that improve access to scholarly resources across SUNY and peer institutions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, MFA at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
web-application6
security5
textbook5
tlaplus4
uploading4
wordpress-plugin4
logging3
wordpress3
garden2
omeka2
multiple-versions2
version-control2
citations2
plugin1
dvc1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
milnegeneseo/opensunytextbooks-mu-plugins
Oct 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
milnegeneseo/milne-website-master
Aug 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:230 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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