KACHEL W.
Front-end developer with 6 years of experience. I’m passionate about accessibility, design systems, and user joy.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Front-End Developer @ NFI (National Freight Industries) April 2019 – September
2025
- Designed and prototyped web components in Figma and then implemented 1:1 in production code
- Collaborated with designers and engineers on design system UI upgrades to transportation management software
- Led workshops with product and engineering teams to translate design decisions and improve buy-in across multiple stakeholders
- Successfully implemented WGAG 2.1 accessibility standards in design system components
- Collaborated daily on maintaining resilient event-driven system architecture
- Reduced the total number of UI colors from 56 hex coded colors to 19 semantically named variable colors
SKILLS
Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Figma, Git
AWARDS / CERTIFICATES
- Women Who Code Bootcamp Scholarship 2018
- Project Alloy Grantee 2017, 2018
- RubyConf Scholar 2018
- Dribbble, Scaling Design Systems Certificate 2023
- DeQue University Disabilities, Guidelines, and Laws Certificate 2024
- General License Amateur Radio (KD9KUU)
EDUCATION
- Flatiron School | Ruby on Rails and JavaScript online program 2019
- Kalamazoo College | International Studies, Chinese (Mandarin) September 2007 - March 2012