Madalyn Parker
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolMadalyn Parker is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building accessible, user-focused web applications and developer tooling. Based in Ann Arbor, she has delivered front-end and full-stack features at Microsoft and contributed major UI and accessibility improvements to high-profile open source projects like HashiCorp Vault and Gatsby. She led accessibility at Gatsby—creating company-wide training, auditing patterns, and screen-reader improvements for client-side routing—and has a track record of turning complex requirements into elegant, usable interfaces. Madalyn combines pragmatic engineering (rapidly learning Ember, building dynamic UIs) with strong advocacy for inclusive design and developer ergonomics. Her GitHub work shows a focus on practical UI enhancements—onboarding wizards, masked inputs, and WCAG-driven changes—that make security and performance-oriented projects more approachable. Off the keyboard she’s energized by live music, coffee, and the demands of her pet rabbits, which keeps her curiosity and empathy front-and-center.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
KAMSCBachelor of Science, Lyman Briggs Computer Science Coordinate Major, Chinese Minor, 3.47, Bachelor of Science, Lyman Briggs Computer Science Coordinate Major, Chinese Minor, 3.47 at Michigan State University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
uid10
emberjs10
javascript10
web-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
gatsby10
react10
html9
eslint9
css8
testing8
vault8
secrets7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
May 2018 - Oct 2019
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 56 PRs, 268 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Madalyn primarily contributed to the user interface (UI) of the Vault project, focusing on frontend component development and enhancement. They updated existing components, such as the HMAC and masked input components, and added new features like a copy button and the ability to wrap secrets, demonstrating a strong understanding of the UI codebase. Furthermore, the user implemented UI onboarding wizards, adding to their contribution.
golanghashicorp-vaultaccess-managementsecurityvault
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 29 PRs, 75 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Madalyn contributed to the Gatsby framework by addressing issues related to error handling within plugins and improving accessibility. They implemented changes to ensure activities are correctly marked as failed when errors occur, particularly in `createPages` and `onCreatePage` functions. The user also removed an unnecessary `onClick` prop from the `gatsby-image` component, and incorporated accessibility improvements by adding a skip navigation example and updating the announcer live region for route changes. Furthermore, they added all rules from eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y to the project configuration and removed a 1px line from gatsby-announcer on 100vh pages and removed `role alert` from announcer live region.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
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