Una Kravets

Team lead and manager (TLM) for the Premium Web Experiences team. With a focus on improving the overall quality of the web ecosystem across UI capabilities, performance, identity, monetization, consumer ecosystem, and ads experiences. Previously: interchanged between IC and TLM for the CSS, UI and DevTools Developer Relations team: Working across Chrome Rendering, Interactions, DOM, DevRel, and DevTools teams, as well as web standards bodies like OpenUI and the CSSWG to support UI engineers on the web platform. Launching web developer APIs, components, and capabilities, and building programs to level up the community.

CSS, UI, and DevTools Advocacy Lead for Chrome (TL and Manager): Improving developer satisfaction through better styling APIs and debugging capabilities. Working with the CSS Working Group and Open UI Community Group to identify and help foster the implementation of native web APIs.

Web Developer Advocate for Material Design: Building educational content, hosting a Youtube show called Designing in the Browser, working with the engineering team to push the product direction toward the needs of 3P developers, building a community around Material on the web (including the web components and React communities), creating protocol and practices around content distribution. Hosting a podcast called the CSS podcast.

Building and managing UI and UX across all BDG Media properties: Bustle, Elite Daily, Romper, the Outline, and The Zoe Report. Working with JavaScript and CSS modules in a React and Preact-based environment, using code and Sketch to design and maintain consistency and extensibility of components. Lead the redesign of Elite Daily, and visual migration and design refresh of newly acquired properties such as the Zoe Report. Created a QA protocol to ensure every instance of each clip type within any parent zone gets reviewed with accessibility in mind. Implemented functional components such as inline playing video, and a region picker when we went global. Protoyped components that would increase time on site and interactivity with posts such as article footers and new ways to navigate the properties.

Rebuilt digitalocean.com website to be twice as fast and accessible. Decreased CSS cruft and improved semantic markup through a design system. Helped maintain community website. Worked on front-end infrastructure within an ember application to introduce systems for improved velocity and code quality. Ran a design system: acted as project manager, product advocate, technical support, and tech lead to work with designers and build a robust system used by ~ 120 engineers both internally and on external product. Improved performance and accessibility while decreasing build time of digitalocean cloud dashboard with the new design system.

Built components and design systems for the Bluemix and Watson teams. Helped create the original plan and architecture for what later launched as the Carbon Design System. Built prototypes of future Bluemix iterations. Led a community knowledge share and facilitated team trainings for Front-end developers that turned into a global effort across international IBM Design offices.

Designed and built the landing website for nvite, forward-thinking concept iterations with mapping APIs, icons and avatars, pitch deck graphics, and the API Developer website. Used JavaScript for data visualizations and HTML/CSS best practices to begin documenting a design system. Company eventually acquired by Eventbrite.

Designed assets for both the website of Beercamp 2013 and the event. Worked on both internal and client websites including AIGA and marketing companies using a Ruby-based custom CMS. Did research/development testing for projects, and occasional chalk installations.

I'd equate this experience to a 10 week long Front End Development Bootcamp (and it was awesome!). Seriously improved my code structure and worked with the Craft CMS to build Proofessor (a drink mixing web app: proofessor.co)

Summer web design/development internship. Did front end web development for Edward Arthur Jewelers, proposed and created an interactive infographic, created Wordpress-based websites and web graphics (icons, emails) and designed layouts for white pages.

Designed over 180 brochures, flyers, posters, logos, web, and print materials for the School of Communication and Dean's Internship Programs.