Professional Speaking Experience


2024

CSS Container Queries: The Future of Responsive Layout

Amazon Internal Event, Seattle, WA

A comparison of trade offs between different responsive layout techniques, and how they impact large applications with distributed ownership.

2023

Front End Engineering Career Paths

Twitch Internal Event, Orange County, CA and Online

2023

Accessibility 101 for Engineers

Twitch Internal Event, Online

Why digital accessibility is a responsibility for all engineers, and what considerations we must make throughout the development process.

2020

Communication tips for engineers working remotely

Twitch Internal Event, Online

How research on effective in-person team collaboration can be translated into an online remote-work environment.

2019

Polishing Perceived Performance

Twitch Internal Event, San Francisco, CA

2018

Thinking like an Engineer vs Thinking like a Designer

Twitch Internal Event, Seattle, WA

How early and frequent collaboration between designers and engineers help cultivate magical results.

2018

CSS Flexbox 101

Twitch Internal Event, San Francisco, CA

A crash course on how to use CSS Flexbox to create dynamic, responsive web layouts.

2017

Super-Powered WordPress application development

WordCamp, Orange County, CA

How to optimize the performance and development workflow of WordPress to use modern tooling and scale interactive sites to support millions of monthly visitors.

2017

Teamwork and Communication Seminar

Lin and Jirsa Studio internal event, Orange County, CA

2013

In Users We Trust: Using Social Media APIs to Build Community

Higher Ed Web, Buffalo, NY

How we built an algorithm to rank and prioritize content based on interaction data across nine social network APIs, then open sourced it as a WordPress plugin.

2013

Dream It, Build It: What we Can Create with Social Media APIs

Higher Ed Web, West, Orange County, CA

How we used Node.js to build a real-time social media content hub to aggregate content from 11 different schools/colleges within Chapman University.