Niki Brown
Web Development & UX Design Instructor at NBD LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNiki Brown is a frontend engineer and instructor based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience crafting performant, accessible web experiences informed by a graphic design background. She partners with product and marketing teams to simplify content workflows and ship component-driven marketing sites using React, Next.js, headless CMSs, and WordPress. At companies like DroneDeploy and Skydio she improved performance and authoring efficiency—driving measurable Lighthouse gains and major CMS simplifications—while also training teams to be self-sufficient. As an educator at OpenClassrooms, Thinkful, and Bloc she translates practical industry practices into teachable workflows for aspiring designers and developers. Outside work she trains for triathlons, reflecting the same discipline she applies to iterative front-end optimization and UX problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (15)
documentation10
odoo9
windows7
linux7
css6
macos6
javascript6
background-image6
android5
electron5
editor4
bloc4
text-editor4
jquery-plugin3
vue2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nikibrown/nikibrown.com
Apr 2020 - Dec 2025
nikibrown.com
Contributions:34 PRs, 40 pushes, 16 branches in 5 years 9 months
nikibrown/barbell-calculator
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:62 PRs, 67 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 10 months
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