About me
Just a person who loves learning, creating, reading, vintage inspired style, and most important of all: my two samoyed dogs!
I'm currently working as a software engineer, but I was previously a pastry chef specialising in handmade confectionery!
About my career
- 2000: Taught myself to write HTML so I could build websites about my virtual pets 🐶
- February 2018: Realised I could learn how to code for real, quit my candy making career and started a 12 week web development bootcamp at General Assembly 🍬
- June 2018: Started as a Junior Front-End Web Developer at Finder 👩🏻💻
- September 2019: Promoted to Software Engineer 🎉
- August 2020: Joined the Editor team at Atlassian 🥳
Things I’ve worked on
Atlassian
- Managed an end-to-end release of packages from platform into products
- Feature led the new undo/redo buttons in the Confluence editor (along with predictability improvements) from make to impact!
- Cypress tests for editor functionality to allow manual testing time to be spent on more complex scenarios
- Improvements to lists in the cloud editor
Finder
- Design Ops: as a team we refreshed the navigation, page templates, side bar and more, giving the whole site a fresh new look and improved user experience. The page templates we created and rolled out across the site reduced bounce rate by ~25%.
- Gutenberg CMS: building ‘blocks’ (components) for the new WordPress editor, using a hybrid renderer that renders Wordpress content in a Next.JS front-end.
- Engineering diversity working group.
- Finder Tech Blog.
- Web accessibility learning breaks.
- Helped propose and implement web accessibility standards.
confectioner turned front-end web dev.
Hello, I’m Taryn! 👋
I’m currently working as a software engineer at Atlassian in Australia.
I’m passionate about inclusion and that often translates to mentoring students and encouraging people to make career changes!
This site is my little home on the internet. It changes regularly with my mood and may contain a mix of tech and personal stories.
