Tim Wright
Engineering Director at New Jersey State Office of Innovation
Greater Hartford United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Wright is an engineering director and accessibility-focused technology leader with 14+ years delivering large-scale design systems and multi-platform web and mobile platforms for government and healthcare. He combines hands-on front-end expertise—demonstrated by accessibility improvements to high-profile open-source projects like WordPress Gutenberg—with empathetic leadership that has grown and mentored teams of 30+ engineers. Known for establishing CI/CD, automated testing, and governance across web and native apps, he balances technical direction with team wellbeing and process improvement. A published author and former podcaster, Tim brings a maker’s curiosity—woodturning, guitar, and hands-on art projects—that surfaces in pragmatic, human-centered product decisions.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Pamplin College of BusinessAssociate of Applied Science, Associate of Applied Science at New River Community College
Github Skills (10)
accessibility10
wordpress10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
gutenberg10
react10
css7
styles7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 13 PRs, 54 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on improving the user interface and accessibility of the Gutenberg editor. Their contributions included fixing focus traps in Firefox, enhancing the visual appearance of tooltips for better contrast, and updating aria labels. They also made improvements to various UI elements such as menu items and the URL slug input. Their work involved modifying component code and adjusting tests and snapshots to reflect UI changes.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
10up/component-accordion
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
DEPRECATED. Please go to https://github.com/10up/component-library
Contributions:20 commits, 19 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 3 months
reactcomponent-library
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