Stephanie Hays
Senior Software Engineer at Chocolatey Software
Wichita, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolStephanie Hays is a Senior Software Engineer based in Wichita, Kansas with seven years of professional software and front-end development experience. She progressed from front-end web developer to senior engineer at Chocolatey Software, where she led UI/UX improvements and implemented features like a global nav, breadcrumbs, dark mode, and a searchable docs experience for the project's public documentation site. Comfortable bridging design and engineering, she has a strong background building responsive, SEO-conscious marketing and product pages across diverse CMS, CRM, and e-commerce platforms. Her earlier career running a small fitness business and managing retail visual teams honed her client-facing communication, project planning, and team leadership skills. Known for pragmatic refactors and attention to polish, she combines a designer’s sensibility with front-end technical depth to make complex documentation and web experiences clearer and more usable.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies with focus on Art, General Studies with focus on Art at Wichita State UniversityTreehouse
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
bootstrap10
css10
html10
bootstra10
user-interface9
ux-design9
ui-design9
interface-design9
responsive-design9
user-experience9
darkmode8
sass8
gulp8
darksky8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chocolatey/docs
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
https://docs.chocolatey.org - new docs website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:129 reviews, 151 commits, 148 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stephanie primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the documentation site. They updated the Bootstrap version, modified the layout, and implemented various visual improvements such as the addition of breadcrumbs, a global navigation bar, and a dark mode toggle. Furthermore, they refactored and organized the JavaScript files, adding features like a cookie notice and a search box. The contributions included adjustments to the front-end JavaScript, CSS, and HTML structures to improve the site's look and feel.
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chocolatey/choco-astro
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contains the Astro build files needed for Chocolatey repositories.
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 12 PRs in 10 months
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