Maria Blair
Founder & Content Creator
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMaria Blair is a senior software engineer turned founder and content creator with a decade of experience building accessible, scalable web applications and leading engineering teams. She drove accessibility-first initiatives across enterprise products, achieving consistent 100 Lighthouse scores while implementing WCAG-compliant components, CI-integrated audits, and internationalized responsive UIs. After a tenure leading teams at Yardi and building complex Angular ecosystems at Live Data Technologies, she pivoted in 2025 to document and monetize the transition from senior engineer to solo entrepreneur in the AI era. Her Maria Talks Tech channel focuses on practical AI tools for builders, career reinvention, and the realities of creating income outside corporate life, reaching her first profitable month in March 2026. Maria’s background in linguistics, legal and market research, and health coaching gives her an uncommon blend of communication, analytical rigor, and user-centered empathy that informs her technical and creator work. Based in Boca Raton, she combines hands-on front-end craft with public-building transparency to help engineers navigate AI disruption.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree, Web Development and Programming, Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree, Web Development and Programming at UdacityClasses in Marketing and Science, Classes in Marketing and Science at Santa Barbara City CollegeCertificate, WordPress Web Development, Certificate, WordPress Web Development at Skillcrush.comParalegal Certificate, Legal Studies, General, Paralegal Certificate, Legal Studies, General at UCSB ExtensionMaster's Degree, Linguistics & Philology, Master's Degree, Linguistics & Philology at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityCertificate, Health Coaching, Certificate, Health Coaching at Institute for Integrative NutritionCourses in Business & Marketing, Business & Marketing, Courses in Business & Marketing, Business & Marketing at Webber International UniversityFront End Web Developer Track, Front End Web Developer Track at Treehouse
Russian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
parse7
css6
bootstrap6
prefixes6
cdn5
javascript4
typescript4
vendor4
icon-fonts3
fonts2
variable-fonts2
font-size2
webfonts1
web-animations-api1
web-animations1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mashablair/interactive-site-map
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:60 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
mashablair/frontend-nanodegree-resume
Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:67 commits, 63 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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