Open to work · Remote or San Diego

AMANDA K. FOSTER

Software Engineer

Front-end-focused web developer. I design in Figma, build in React, Next.js and Ruby on Rails, and ship interfaces that are accessible and work at every screen size.

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Amanda Foster smiling, in a white patterned blouse

5 years

designing and building for the web

WCAG 2 AA

accessibility built in, tested 320 to 1680px

Open source

fixes merged into Samvera Hyku and Hyrax

Yale · Harvard

university library platforms

Selected work

Interfaces people rely on every day

Quicksearch home page: the Yale Library header, the Quicksearch search bar with data source tabs, and the All Results overview

Yale University Library · 2023–2026

Quicksearch discovery platform

Redesigned the holdings and request pages for the move to Alma and Primo VE, from Figma mockups to production. Modernized the front end and raised test coverage.

Figma · Rails · Bootstrap 5 · SCSS · WCAG

Read the case study about Yale Quicksearch
ACORN Records List: a table of conservation records, with the record data blurred

Harvard University Library · 2026

ACORN conservation records

Led the front end of moving Harvard's conservation records system from Angular to React and Next.js, live in production in under eight weeks.

React · Next.js · TypeScript · Accessibility

Read the case study about Harvard ACORN

Also: the University of Tennessee, Knoxville repository theme, ArchivesSpace restyling, Yale Digital Collections viewer work, and a Drata engineering internship.

About

From real estate to the front end

I came to software after 16 years in real estate, managing properties and coordinating multi-million-dollar closings. After the LEARN Academy bootcamp I spent four and a half years at Notch8, building web applications for libraries, archives and universities.

The work I like best is taking a system people use every day and making it clearer, faster and easier for everyone to use. I'm organized, I communicate early, and I'm comfortable being the person who keeps a release on track.

Skills

What I work with

Front end

JavaScript, React, Next.js, HTML, CSS and SCSS, Bootstrap, Blacklight, responsive layout

Design

Figma mockups and design options, through to approved designs in production. Brand identity: logos, favicons, color and type

Accessibility

WCAG 2 Level AA, keyboard and screen-reader testing, accessibility guides

Back end and testing

Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Solr, RSpec, Coveralls, Selenium

Contact

Working on something where accessibility and good engineering matter? Let's talk.

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