Samantha Sanders
Senior Frontend Developer (Design Systems) at Bupa Australia
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Sanders is a Senior Frontend Developer with 11 years of experience who specializes in design systems and React/TypeScript component libraries, currently shaping UI consistency and accessibility at Bupa Australia. With a background in graphic design and a BFA in Graphic Design, she bridges visual craft and engineering to deliver simple, fast-to-build interfaces that designers and engineers both trust. She has a strong appetite for scalable, maintainable CSS and a practical focus on accessibility—evidenced by contributions to an accessible React accordion that improved keyboard navigation and ARIA semantics. Samantha excels at collaborating closely with designers to turn concepts into polished, usable components and brings a proven track record across fintech and digital agencies in New Zealand and Australia.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic design at University of CanterburyDiploma, Web Development, Diploma, Web Development at Natcoll Design School
Github Skills (6)
accessibility10
component-development10
javascript10
react10
accordion10
css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
springload/react-accessible-accordion
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Accessible Accordion component for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Samantha primarily contributed to the React-based accessible accordion component. They focused on enhancing the UI and accessibility of the component by modifying CSS classes and aria attributes. Their work involved updating the component's styling and keyboard navigation features to align with accessibility best practices. They also updated tests and code to reflect the changes.
reactaccordioncollapseaccessibleaccessibility
samanthaksanders/samanthaksanders.github.io
Sep 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 6 months
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