Stephanie Hobson
Mozilla.org Staff Front-End Developer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolStephanie Hobson is a senior front-end developer with 13 years of experience building accessible, multi-lingual web experiences from Vancouver, BC. As a staff front-end developer at Mozilla.org she has led major redesigns and performance improvements for high-traffic properties including MDN (powering millions of monthly users) and the mozilla.org brand site. She specializes in accessibility, design systems, and pragmatic front-end modernization—introducing linting, testing, lazy loading, and componentization that reduced technical debt and page load times. An active open-source contributor, she has made substantial UI and UX contributions to MDN’s kuma and interactive-examples repos and helped implement the first CMS on mozilla.org. Beyond code, she’s delivered measurable wins like re-activating localized download pages, cutting third-party costs with in-house tooling, and improving conversions through focused UI work. Colleagues know her for combining meticulous front-end craftsmanship with a clear focus on inclusivity and measurable impact.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Internet Professional Program, Internet Professional Program at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor's degree, History, Bachelor's degree, History at Mount Allison University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
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css10
responsive-design10
user-interface10
ui-design10
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uid10
front-end-development10
html10
highcharts6
android6
iphone6
validation6
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/bedrock
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Making mozilla.org awesome, one pebble at a time
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:712 reviews, 287 commits, 922 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Stephanie primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Mozilla Bedrock project, focusing on the implementation and enhancement of UI elements. Their work involved fixing focus-related bugs in forms and expanding functionality for the newsletter signup form by integrating new features. They also made CSS and JavaScript modifications to align with specific visual and functional requirements.
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mdn/kuma
Jun 2014 - Oct 2018
The project that powers MDN.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:672 commits, 619 PRs, 538 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Stephanie primarily contributed to the front-end of the MDN project by implementing and improving UI elements. Their work included adding and styling save icons to buttons within user profiles, modifying CSS classes for button styling, and updating the layout of the translation interface. Additionally, the user addressed bugs related to the display of the navigation menu and added the ability to show or hide the text and images used for the "In This Article" feature.
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