Shawn Lauriat
Engineering Program Lead, Accessibility at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorShawn Lauriat is an accessibility-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience building inclusive products and programs across major tech organizations. Currently an Engineering Program Lead for Accessibility at Microsoft, he previously scaled accessibility infrastructure and strategy at Google—growing a small reactive team into a 25-person, cross-functional organization supporting 500+ products. He blends hands-on engineering roots (web, PHP, JavaScript, CMSs) with program-level thinking, emphasizing simplification, automation, and meeting teams where they are. A long-time advocate in the community, he co-founded AccessibilityNYC in 2014 and has represented Google at W3C, co-facilitating WCAG 3 efforts. Beyond tech, he brings leadership and operational experience from roles as an owner of a development consultancy and as Vice Commodore of Inwood Canoe Club, reflecting a practical, service-oriented approach to scaling accessibility.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, American Sign Language
Github Skills (48)
angularjs-material10
bower10
wai10
angularjs10
npm9
accessibility9
reader9
voiceover9
css9
lts9
visual-regression-testing9
axe9
wcag9
materialize9
wpf9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
slauriat/material
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 23 days
materialmaterial-designangularjsangularmaterial-ui
a11ynyc/camp
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
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