Taryn Ewens

About me

• 2000: Taught myself to write HTML and CSS so I could build geocities sites about my virtual ‘dogz’ 🐶
• February 2018: Finally 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

• 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.

When I'm not at a computer

You'll usually find me going on adventures with Lexi the Samoyed . 🐶