Brittany Walker

@musicalwebdev
Washington, DC
she/her

CSS Artist

Developer Advocate

Musical

JavaScript

Emojineer

Teacher

Software Engineering

Mentor

Volunteer

Speaker

Developer advocate and musical theater fan. 🎭

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I'm open to

beta testing new products,

speaking at events,

speaking on podcasts,

live streaming,

open source contributions,

and giving resume feedback.

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Resume

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Jun 2021 - Present

Developer Advocate, Contentful

Oct 2018 - Present

Front End Web Development Lead, Women Who Code DC

Jul 2019 - Jun 2021

Software Engineer, Framebridge

Jun 2017 - Dec 2019

Instructor/Teaching Assistant, Thinkful

Links

Portfolio

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Taught Workshop at Render ATL - A Musical Introduction to Content Management

Published Contentful Developer Newsletter - November Composable content, a trip to London, and Fast Forward Live https://www.contentful.com/blog/dev-newsletter-november-2022/

Published Contentful Developer Newsletter - October Developer Newsletter: London meetup, Fast Forward 2022, and composable architecture https://www.contentful.com/blog/dev-newsletter-october-2022/

Attended React Advanced London

Mentoring

Start as a mentor at Front-End Foxes School https://www.vuevixens.org/

Started as a mentor for General Assembly software engineering bootcamp graduates.

Side projects

Streetwise Partners Mentor Started as a career mentor for Streetwise Partners.

Awards

https://technical.ly/dc/2020/11/16/reallist-engineers-2020-dctech-influential-software-developers/ Honored as an influential technologist within the Washington DC tech community.

Things I’ve built

Launched Millennials Slay, A directory of industries, traditions and products that millennials have supposedly killed over the years. https://millennialslay.lol/

Launched The Bookish Log, a tracker for all of the books I have read starting from 2021.

Launched TheaterLog, a log of every musical and play I have seen since 2010.

https://github.com/brittanyrw/emojiscreen

Speaking engagements

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Taught "A Musical Introduction to Content Management with Contentful and Vue.js" workshop for Vue.js Forge

Taught A Musical Introduction to Content Management with Contentful at Render ATL conference

Co-Taught CSS Classes and Flexbox for G|Code House coding bootcamp.

Co-Taught CSS Elements for G|Code House coding bootcamp.

Videos

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Building an ecommerce front-end with Algolia and Contentful Webinar https://www.contentful.com/resources/building-an-ecommerce-front-end-with-algolia-and-contentful/

Accelerate site speed with Contentful and Vercel Webinar w/Vercel https://www.contentful.com/resources/accelerate-site-speed-with-contentful-vercel/

Introducing the Contentful Developer Showcase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udptY_s3hds

Manage Products with Contentful - A Headless CMS at VueJS Forge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeD7ig8bzHU

Articles and blogs

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Published Contentful Developer Newsletter - September Engineering interview, new JavaScript starters, and fun webinars https://www.contentful.com/blog/2022/09/13/dev-newsletter-september-2022/

Published Contentful Developer Newsletter - August New Developer Learning Path Courses and App Marketplace integrations https://www.contentful.com/blog/2022/08/09/dev-newsletter-august-2022/

Published Contentful Developer Newsletter - July Developer showcase highlights, robots, and event recaps https://www.contentful.com/blog/2022/07/12/dev-newsletter-july-2022/

Published Contentful Developer Newsletter - June New developer relations team members and captivating events https://www.contentful.com/blog/2022/06/08/dev-newsletter-june-2022/