Melissa Piper
Freelance Front-End Developer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMelissa Piper is a Freelance Front-End Developer with eight years of professional experience building accessible, responsive web experiences across higher education, nonprofits, retail, and service sectors. She specializes in HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript and modern frameworks like React, and has deep practical experience with Drupal and WordPress multisite architectures. Melissa is a strong advocate for inclusivity and WCAG compliance, routinely testing and improving accessibility and presenting on accessibility laws and best practices. She combines component-driven development (Storybook, TypeScript) with CMS integrations (Contentful, Acquia, Pantheon) to deliver maintainable, performant sites and design systems. A collaborative mentor and communicator, she has led internal training, code reviews, and written technical content for company blogs. Based in Pittsburgh, she brings a pragmatic blend of CMS-era expertise and modern front-end discipline that helps teams modernize legacy platforms without losing stability.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Multimedia Technology, Graduate Certificate Multimedia Technology at PennWest California
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
adobe-xd9
acquia8
recurly7
nette6
react2
accessibility1
survey1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
empee3/empee3.github.io
Jun 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
empee3/cmu-rocket
Jul 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:17 PRs, 15 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 7 months
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