Rachel Vasquez
WordPress Engineer at Self-Employed / Freelance / Independent Contributor
South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Vasquez is a Senior Full-Stack Developer with over a decade of hands-on experience building secure, accessible, enterprise-grade web applications—most recently designing mission-critical systems for 1,000+ financial institutions at ISDA. She blends React front-end leadership, PHP/WordPress expertise, and AWS-driven backend integration to deliver PCI-compliant payment flows, complex API/ETL pipelines, and WCAG-aware interfaces. Comfortable in both agency and large enterprise settings, Rachel also authors technical documentation and accessibility guidance, contributing to notable open-source projects like 10up’s Engineering Best Practices and the WordPress Accessibility Handbook. Her work balances pragmatic product focus with regulatory and security constraints, and she actively shares learnings via GitHub projects (little-a11y-things, rachievee-2025) and #DevAdventures.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts: Interactive Media, Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts: Interactive Media at Pratt InstituteAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Design and Visual Communications General, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Design and Visual Communications General at Katharine Gibbs School
Github Skills (6)
html10
accessibility10
jekyll9
git9
javascript8
ui-design7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
10up/Engineering-Best-Practices
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
10up Engineering Best Practices
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 22 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and accessibility of the project. Their contributions involved adding aria labels to navigation elements in the header and footer, improving overall navigation. The user also made changes to the menu order by adjusting the sorting of pages. Furthermore, they merged changes from the gh-pages branch, indicating maintenance and integration efforts.
reactjsjavascriptreactengineering
JDRF/design-system
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
JDRF Design System
Contributions:1 release, 689 commits, 163 PRs in 5 months
design-systemsreacttypescriptdesign-system
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