Melanie Mazanec
Software Engineer at New Jersey State Office of Innovation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMelanie Mazanec is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building accessible, user-focused web applications for government and public-interest organizations. Currently extending Code for America’s File Your State Taxes tool for New Jersey, she brings full-stack Rails and modern front-end expertise honed through roles at civic tech consultancies and city digital teams. Melanie has led accessibility-driven redesigns, consolidated legacy code into Vue 3 apps, and introduced containerization and automated testing to teams that hadn’t used them before. Equally at home with D3 visualizations and WCAG compliance, she pairs technical craft with human-centered research from a long history of volunteer leadership at Code for America. Outside engineering she’s a musician and avid cyclist, a background that informs her collaborative, disciplined approach to complex civic problems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at New York UniversityBachelor of Music Trumpet Performance, Bachelor of Music Trumpet Performance at Oberlin CollegeMusic, Music at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten UtrechtMaster’s Degree Public Administration, Master’s Degree Public Administration at Levin College of Public Affairs and EducationHigh School Diploma Trumpet Performance, High School Diploma Trumpet Performance at Interlochen Arts AcademyWeb Development, Web Development at Dev Bootcamp
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Github Skills (103)
component-library10
javascript10
clarity10
tailwindcss10
vue10
css10
sass10
nuxt10
ui-components9
nteract9
accessibility9
indexing9
react9
frontend9
uswds9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
codeforamerica/brigade-project-index-statusboard
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
A "statusboard" web app that is designed to display ongoing realtime information about each brigade's project-indexing opportunities.
Contributions:16 reviews, 156 commits, 26 PRs in 7 months
realtimereactbrigadecivic-techongoing
mmazanec22/whistlblowr
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:153 commits, 101 PRs, 69 pushes in 27 days
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