Vendela Colavecchio
Design Director at thoughtbot
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVendela Colavecchio is a Design Director with a decade of experience crafting accessible, user-centered web and product experiences, currently leading design at thoughtbot. She progressed through roles from Design Apprentice to Director at thoughtbot, blending hands-on front-end skills with strategic design leadership. Her background spans visual design, CMS development, and teaching—she’s lectured on HTML/CSS and typography at Northeastern University—bringing both craft and pedagogy to team practices. Vendela emphasizes clean, DRY Sass and accessibility, often turning side projects into polished websites that inform her studio work. Comfortable bridging design and implementation, she has deep practical experience with responsive UI, Twig/WordPress/Craft CMS theming, and interactive JavaScript. Based in Florida, she combines studio-level attention to detail with the process rigor of a design leader who still ships code.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic Design + Interactive Media, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic Design + Interactive Media at Northeastern UniversityMadison High School
Swedish, French
Github Skills (16)
sass-functions10
bourbon10
sass9
css9
react6
phoenix-framework5
elixir5
jekyll4
react-native-template4
typescript3
garden3
react-native3
ruby2
static-site2
thoughtbot1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vendelal/portfolio_site
Jul 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 146 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 4 months
vendelal/vendelal.github.io
Sep 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:124 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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