Suzanne Aitchison
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Netlify
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSuzanne Aitchison is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Edinburgh with nine years of experience building accessible, delightful web experiences—particularly in React and related front-end frameworks. She has progressed through engineering and leadership roles at Forem and Netlify, where she focuses on front-end quality, accessibility, and ship-ready user interfaces. An active open-source contributor, she has improved keyboard accessibility and focus styles in the well-known Forem community repo, demonstrating attention to inclusive UX details often overlooked. Suzanne’s background in international education and communications gives her strong empathy and cross-cultural collaboration skills, which she applies to mentoring teams and advocating for user-centered design.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MA Classics, MA Classics at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (10)
accessibility10
uid10
preact10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
sc9
storybook9
scs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1739 reviews, 288 commits, 731 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Suzanne contributed to the front-end development of the project, primarily focusing on improving the accessibility of dropdown components. Their work involved allowing keyboard access, adding accessibility notes, and implementing focus styles for keyboard users. The changes were made to storybook stories and included modifications to JSX and SCSS files, indicating involvement in UI development. The user also worked with preact, showcasing frontend framework skills.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
aitchiss/aitchiss.github.io
May 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:66 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years
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