Taryn Ewens: Front-End Web Developer

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.

Taryn at her desk with her big fluffy dog begging for treats

Taryn at her desk giving her big fluffy dog a treat

When I'm not at a computer

I'm usually going on adventures (as well as training, grooming, etc.) my two Samoyed dogs, Lexi and Sprite . 🐶 Alternatively in my rare moments of peace & quiet you'll likely find me with my nose in a book. 📚