Marlena Baker

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A developer with a background in UX Design, Project Management, and Education. I have a passion for delivering robust, performant, and accessible applications to meet user and business needs.

About

A developer with a background in UX Design, Project Management, and Education. I have a passion for delivering robust, performant, and accessible applications to meet user and business needs. I bring with me the experience and drive to quickly learn and get up to speed on whatever I’m working on. I always put emphasis on being a teammate that helps everyone do their best work and grow as I work with them.

In addition to the the roles listed in my experience, I have contributed to my previous employers and the developer community in the following ways:

Projects

A11y Contribution Event Proposal
Planned and proposed an event for instructors to help improve the A11y of our applications while learning about making accessible apps

Career Track Mentorship Pilot
Pitched and planned a one year pilot for internal career mentoring for underrepresented groups in tech

Community

Co-organizer, DenverScript Meetup June 2023 - Present
Organize, lead, and present at meetups; maintain online presence of meetup

Co-organizer, Denver Vue.js Meetup July 2017 - March 2023
Organize meetings, source speakers, and present about Vue.js

DEI Committee Member, App Academy June 2022 - March 2023
Gathered employee feedback on committee events, wrote proposal for resources to increase A11y of applications

DEI Council Member, Quizlet July 2021 - March 2022
Collected, anonymized, and synthesized minority employee feedback; led council readings and discussions; planned mentorship program

Frontend Guild Leader, HomeAdvisor Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Set code style guidelines; trained all guild members on new standards and tooling; iterated on interview process; coordinated team building events

  • Joined February 2024

Industry experience

  • Education
  • Software & Internet

Education

Bachelors of Fine Arts · Metropolitan State University of Denver2011

Concentration in Communication Design

Fullstack Web Development Immsersive · Galvanize2017

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