Stephanie Stimac
Pre-Partner Web Platform PM
Bedford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephanie Stimac is a product leader and former front-end designer-developer with 10+ years building developer- and user-focused web platforms, currently Pre-Partner Web Platform PM at Igalia and Co-Chair of the Metaverse Standards Forum XR Device Interoperability group. She blends visual design training (B.A. in Graphic Design: New Media) with hands-on front-end contributions to notable open-source projects like MicrosoftEdge demos and webhint, improving accessibility, print styles, and SVG demos. An international speaker and author of Design for Developers, she specializes in developer experience—crafting tools and interfaces that engineers actually enjoy using. Her background spans Microsoft Edge, RapidAPI, and developer advocacy roles across Seattle, Berlin and the UK, and she continues to consult and teach design remotely. Notably, she pairs empathy-driven product practice with practical CSS and UX fixes that lift both usability and visual polish.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
French Fine Art and Design, French Fine Art and Design at Spokane Falls Community CollegeB.A. Graphic Design: New Media, B.A. Graphic Design: New Media at Western Washington University
English, French, German
Github Skills (8)
html10
accessibility10
css10
javascript10
svg10
ax10
ui-design9
guideline9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftEdge/Demos-old
May 2016 - Jan 2017
Open source and interoperable demos for Microsoft Edge Dev site
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephanie primarily focused on front-end development, contributing to the `microsoftedge/demos-old` repository. They made UI updates and implemented CSS modifications to improve the user interface of the SVG demo. Specific changes involved reskinning the SVG demo, adding an SVG 1.1 image, and adjusting styles to refine the visual presentation and user experience.
interoperabledevmicrosoft-edgeedgemicrosoft
webhintio/hint
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
đź’ˇ A hinting engine for the web
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 75 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Stephanie primarily contributed to the HTML formatter, focusing on styling and accessibility improvements for the scan results. Their work involved updating CSS for print styles, color audits, and layout adjustments. The user also addressed accessibility issues, such as fixing button cutoff and removing unnecessary ARIA attributes. These contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the user interface and usability of the webhint scan results.
lintwebhintsecuritypwasjavascript
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