Ray Estrada
Director Of Software Engineering at Bixal
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Estrada is a seasoned software engineering leader based in Portland with over a decade of experience designing and shipping accessible, multilingual web experiences for high-profile public-sector and nonprofit clients. As Director of Software Engineering at Bixal he combines hands-on frontend craftsmanship—USWDS, Storybook, Drupal migrations and React apps—with program-level responsibilities like ATO completion, team competency frameworks, and hiring panel improvements. He’s built cultures of collaboration and automation through component-driven development, mentoring engineers while driving frontend and DevOps best practices. Notably, he led the multilingual migration and launch of vote.gov and its embedded Digital NVRF, illustrating a talent for translating complex policy-facing requirements into reliable, inclusive products. A BFA-trained designer, Ray brings a rare blend of visual design sensibility and technical leadership that helps teams prototype faster and deliver more empathetic user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, BFA, Graphic Design, Fine Arts at California State University, Fullerton
Github Skills (22)
drupal10
hugo10
vote10
infrastructure10
php9
gulp7
codebase7
static-assets7
terraform6
uswds5
jquery-plugin4
css4
sass4
open-data3
dns3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
usagov/vote-gov
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
This repository contains the files and infrastructure to run the legacy vote.gov website.
Contributions:39 releases, 552 reviews, 190 commits in 1 year
govinfrastructurehugovote
usagov/vote-gov-nvrf-app
Jun 2023 - Jun 2025
Contributions:30 releases, 152 reviews, 312 PRs in 2 years
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