Zachary Shilton
Senior Web Designer at HashiCorp
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Shilton is a Senior Web Designer with 11 years of experience crafting polished, user-focused front ends, currently driving web design at HashiCorp from Old Toronto. He specializes in refactoring and modernizing documentation and product websites—improving UI/UX, global styles, navigation, and print styles—across high-profile open-source projects like Vagrant, Consul, Vault, Nomad, Waypoint, Boundary, and Packer. Comfortable as both front-end and occasional full-stack contributor, he has implemented custom components (e.g., openapi-page), search indexing for docs, and coordinated dependency upgrades to keep large doc sites healthy. His background bridges graphic design and computer science, giving him a rare mix of visual sensibility and technical rigor when solving presentation and usability problems.
11 years of coding experience
Bealart, Lithography & Sculpture, Bealart, Lithography & Sculpture at H.B. Beal Secondary SchoolLondon Central Secondary SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
French
Github Skills (30)
content-management-system10
javascript10
website-development10
css10
nextjs10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
content-management10
html10
react10
api-documentation9
documentation9
consul8
markdown-it6
vault6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 25 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the website's front-end, focusing on UI/UX improvements and refactoring. Their work included fixing link colors and theming in various cloud offerings and learn callouts, indicating a focus on visual presentation. Furthermore, they implemented and refactored existing website components and styles. The user updated the global styles, moving the community page to CSS modules, and fixing print styles.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
hashicorp/packer
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 110 commits, 45 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily worked on the website component of the `packer` repository. Their contributions involved refactoring and enhancing the documentation website, specifically related to integrating remote plugin documentation. They implemented features for indexing the content for search, added various badges, and improved the overall presentation and linking of documentation. They also made fixes to broken links and updated various other website components.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
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