Hello, I'm Hope

I build design systems, create beautifully simple and modern frontends, and love to teach others how to do the same

Hiya

A senior software engineer with seven years of experience in mobile and web dev land 🌐

Motivated by my Peace Corps volunteer work, I'm passionate about building tech that makes people happier, and enjoy working with others who strive to do the same.

Passionate about capacity-building and co-designing in international health? I'm also a fractional engineering executive at Puente, a tech nonprofit that creates and uses data collection and analysis software to identify and respond to health needs in international development.

Let's work together!

Selected Projects

Adding a high-usage organism to a design system

design system engineer

How many versions of a mobile data collection application can we create?

mobile engineer

Adding a note’s interface to cybersecurity visualization data

frontend engineer

I've worked at some cool places

And have built some serious engineering and design chops along the way. Whether you're in need of a new design system or a new mobile app front-to-back, I have the skills and know-how to make the rubber meet the road with your ideas and bring delight to your users!

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Etsy

Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

React/TS

Design Tokens

Storybook

Working on Etsy’s Design System, “Collage”, which is a cross-platform system of UI components, utility CSS classes, and codemods to support a two-sided market place.

2023 - Present

Cityblock Health

Senior UX Engineer

React/TS

GraphQL

Storybook

Figma

Leading the efforts for design and engineering of our design system Commonplace. Previously worked as a full-stack engineer on our care delivery team.

2022 - 2023

Puente

Principal Software Engineer

React.js

React-Native

GraphQL

Express.js

As an engineering leader at Puente, a tech non-profit, I develop and manage our client-facing applications, API services, and cloud infrastructure resources to identify and respond to health needs in international development. I lead an agile engineering team of 3, continuously improving the reliability of product aesthetics, usability, and data delivery.

2017 - Present (Part-time)

The Washington Post

Full-Stack Javascript Engineer

React.js

Node.js

AWS

As a member of The Washington Post's Research, Experimentation, and Design team (RED), I worked on developing advertising products and applications for the Post, advertisers, and other publishers. Did a lot of work on cloud-native micro-services using AWS Resources and support the orchestration of existing product infrastructure using tools like AWS Codepipeline and AWS Codebuild.

2020-2022

In-Q-Tel

Software Engineer

D3.js

React.js

Redux

Python

As an engineer at IQT, a non-profit that invests in tech to accelerate development for the CIA and other U.S. government agencies to enhance national security, I created comparative design evaluations, mockups, and engineering prototypes for Cyber Reboot, IQT's open-source cybersecurity and network visualization software team.

2019-2020