Summary
Nyssa Shepherd is a UX Developer with 8 years of software experience, specializing in front-end engineering and accessible design. She has a proven track record at Ping Identity driving a company-wide accessibility initiative to WCAG 2.1 AA, enhancing React components with ARIA and semantic HTML while maintaining a shared component library and Storybook governance. Previously a Software Engineer Team Lead at SambaSafety, she increased team velocity by 20%, mentored peers to ramp faster, and consistently delivered sprint commitments on time. Comfortable across React, Vue, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS, she pairs design-minded thinking with rigorous testing and scalable code practices. Based in the Greater Colorado Springs area, she continually adopts new tools to build high-performance, user-first front ends. Notably, she reduced design hand-off defects by 75% through process improvements that bridge design and engineering.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Development, Front End Development at Turing School of Software & Design