Thomas Vaeth
Design Technologist, Public Web Design System at Square
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Vaeth is a Design Technologist with 11 years of experience building scalable UI systems and frontend architecture, currently shaping Square’s Public Web Design System. He specializes in creating reusable, accessible components and documenting them with Storybook to support cross-functional teams and automated visual and accessibility testing. Previously he led front-end efforts for hardware campaigns at Square, introduced Cypress end-to-end testing, and built internal AI tools to auto-generate alt text and improve SEO—illustrating a blend of pragmatic engineering and product-minded automation. His background spans design-centric roles at Redfin and Getty Images where he restructured design systems and delivered performance-focused components. An early career in biomedical research and a formal Web Development Immersive inform a detail-oriented, investigative approach to problem solving. He also contributes to open-source projects like a Jekyll templating migration, demonstrating hands-on full-stack refactoring experience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBiomedical Sciences, Biomedical Sciences at Thomas Jefferson UniversityBachelor of Science Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science Biochemistry at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (7)
html10
liquid10
jekyll10
css9
javascript8
front-end-development8
seo7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
samesies/barber-jekyll
Nov 2017 - May 2020
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 9 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's contributions primarily involved migrating the project's templating language from Handlebars to Liquid, impacting multiple layout and include files. They also added and modified various components like the share, footer, and social media links. The changes suggest significant refactoring, indicating an involvement in adapting the existing codebase to a new templating engine and enhancing the overall functionality and SEO aspects of the project.
thomasvaeth/thomasvaeth.github.io
Dec 2015 - Jun 2022
Portfolio.
Contributions:330 commits, 118 PRs, 301 pushes in 6 years 7 months
cssjavascriptreact
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