Luis Garcia
Silver Contributor at Knowbility
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Garcia is an accessibility-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience marrying customer-facing support and technical advocacy to create more inclusive web experiences. Based in Cupertino, he has led accessibility initiatives at major organizations including Apple, eBay, Cohesity, and Intuit, shaping roadmaps, design systems, and conformance standards. As a Silver Contributor at W3C he’s currently helping define the successor to WCAG by developing a practical conformance model, and he judges Knowbility’s OpenAIR to nurture accessible design in the nonprofit space. Luis combines hands-on front-end fixes—like improving keyboard parity and focus states on high-profile project sites—with cross-functional leadership that balances compliance, product priorities, and developer education. Known for evangelizing accessibility through meetups and training programs, he brings a rare blend of empathy, policy-level influence, and pragmatic engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Linguistics Economics, Bachelors Linguistics Economics at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (5)
css10
user-interface10
html9
accessibility9
website-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
druid-io/druid-io.github.io
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Druid Project Website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Luis primarily focused on improving the user interface and accessibility of the Druid Project Website. Their contributions included adding keyboard and mouse parity, enhancing focus states for better navigation, and fixing links. They made changes to CSS files (blogs.css, docs.css, header.css) to improve the styling and accessibility of elements and also modified the `index.html` file to correct links and remove redundant content. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user experience.
project-websitedruid
garcialo/ko-hearthstone
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:70 commits, 61 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 1 month
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