Kyala Shea
Fort Bragg, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyala Shea is a Web Director with 11 years in web leadership and nearly three decades at Guilford Press, where she progressed from fulfillment associate to director, shaping the publisher’s digital presence. She combines a physics and botanical informatics background with practical web systems expertise to design elegant, user-centered solutions for complex publishing workflows. Passionate about tech for social good, Kyala excels at aligning product, engineering, and editorial teams so each individual can contribute their strengths. She is known for pragmatic problem-solving, maintaining long-term operational stability while driving iterative improvements. Based in Fort Bragg, CA, she brings institutional memory and a rare continuity of perspective that helps anticipate downstream impacts of technical decisions. Her approach emphasizes simplicity, inclusivity, and durable systems over flashy one-offs.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s of Science Degree Physics & Botanical Informatics, Bachelor’s of Science Degree Physics & Botanical Informatics at 
Github Skills (14)
risk-assessment7
python5
project-management5
climate-change5
react4
technical-writing4
documentation4
jekyll4
usability2
data-visualization2
open-source2
archiving1
mongodb1
website-monitoring1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DataRescueSFBay/DataRescueSFBay-Event
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Start here for the Feb 11 2017 event
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 days
start-here
suchthis/webapp
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 2 branches in 2 years
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