Melanie Bockmann
Senior Front-End Developer at Canadian Digital Service (CDS) / Service numérique canadien (SNC)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMelanie Bockmann is a Senior Front-End Developer based in Vancouver with a decade of experience delivering accessible, inclusive web apps and design systems. She combines hands-on engineering (React, Next.js, Vue, TypeScript, styled-components) with UX/UI design sensibilities, repeatedly building and leading design systems at startups and in-house teams. As a consultant and former CTO, she has taken projects from concept to production, guiding clients toward industry standards and measurable UX improvements. At the Canadian Digital Service she focuses on public-facing, standards-driven interfaces, and her work at Legible Media and Bellwether highlights a consistent emphasis on cross-device accessibility and reusable component libraries. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, she also has a track record of creating tooling (a micro CSS framework) and EPUB integrations that broaden access to digital content.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Media Informatics, Media Informatics at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München / University of MunichSenior Management Certificate, New Media Design & Web Development, Senior Management Certificate, New Media Design & Web Development at British Columbia Institute of Technology / BCIT
German, English
Github Skills (28)
web-components10
spacing10
building-blocks10
monorepo10
style-dictionary10
design-tokens9
typography9
react9
testing8
react-native7
javascript7
webpack7
css7
vue7
angular7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cds-snc/gcds-fonts
Jun 2024 - Jun 2026
GC Design System Fonts provides the fonts used within GC Design System.
Contributions:29 reviews, 81 PRs, 93 pushes in 2 years
design-systemgovernmentgovernment-canada
cds-snc/gcds-css-shortcuts
Oct 2022 - Jul 2026
GC Design System CSS Shortcuts is a CSS utility framework built to match GC Design System (GCDS) styles and Canada.ca standards | Raccourcis CSS est un cadre utilitaire créé afin de s'aligner avec les styles du Système de design GC et les normes de Canada.ca
Contributions:191 reviews, 246 PRs, 276 pushes in 3 years 10 months
cssdesign-systemgovernmentgovernment-canadautility-framework
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