Melanie Bockmann
Senior Front-End Developer at Canadian Digital Service (CDS) / Service numérique canadien (SNC)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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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 (36)
web-components10
spacing10
building-blocks10
typography10
style-dictionary10
testing9
design-tokens9
react9
angular8
vue8
webpack8
javascript8
react-native8
svelte7
vite7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cds-snc/gcds-tokens
Mar 2022 - Apr 2025
GC Design System Tokens are the smallest building blocks of GC Design System, represent design decisions for basic elements like colour, typography, and spacing. | Les jetons Système de design GC sont les plus petits blocs de construction du système et représentent les choix de design pour les éléments de base (couleur, typographie, espacement…).
Contributions:363 reviews, 315 PRs, 349 pushes in 3 years 1 month
colourdecisionstheoreactbuilding-blocks
cds-snc/gcds-examples
May 2024 - Mar 2025
GC Design System repository containing code examples
Contributions:64 reviews, 39 PRs, 65 pushes in 10 months
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