Angélique Weger

Principal Engineer for Front-end & Accessibility

Family & Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI), Maryland Department of Labor

Mar 2024 – present

Third hire to the Digital Service team building out a greenfield application to support Maryland workers and employers in the rollout of paid family and medical leave for the state. 🆕 Still early days here, so the accomplishments below are a WIP.

Leadership

• Developed the hiring process for key roles on the team and served as hiring manger for 5 of the team's early hires

Technical

• Established standards and documentation for the engineering team, specifically around accessibility and front-end performance

Engineering Manager

Panorama Education

Oct 2021 – Feb 2024

Leadership

• Refined how the engineering team supported customer support requests, including improvements to our cross-functional communication and tools
• Strateged on zone-wide plans and collaborated on change management for those plans
• Updated the promotion process for all engineers and led the biannual review process
• Coached mainly senior engineers via 1x1s, including facilitating promotions for 4 engineers over 3 quarters

Culture

• Rebooted a dormant affinity group for women, gender-nonconforming and nonbinary employees, providing a point of connection and support for team members

Engineering Manager, Front-end

Lumen Learning

Oct 2019 – Sep 2021

Leadership

• Developed career progression strategy, providing engineering team with meaningful titles and clear expectations for each level
• Responsible for growing front-end team from 2 to 4, including developing hiring and onboarding processes that were then adopted by entire engineering team
• Improving and reconciling fragmented team workflows
• Collaborating closely with product managers, developers and designer to scope and estimate work to achieve our product roadmap
• Coaching 5 team members at a variety of skill levels via regular 1:1s
• Organizing and running team meetings, including sprint planning and retrospectives

Technical

• Planning and implementing front-end features and bug fixes across our products
• Providing guidelines to developers and content team for creating inclusive and accessible markup and about testing with screen readers
• Writing documentation and participating in code review

Culture

• Conducting company-wide workshop on accessibility and inclusive design principles
• Establishing and modeling engineering team norms, specifically around learning/professional development and employee wellness

Adjunct Professor

MICA

Aug 2018 – present

• Instructing undergraduate students in GD 220 (Graphic Design 2) and GD 431 (Front End Web development)
• Developing curriculum and assignments for each 16-week course
• Working 1:1 with students and providing detailed code review in response to assignments

Front-end Lead + Manager

Fractured Atlas

May 2017 – Oct 2019

Leadership

• Managed UX engineering team, including holding 1:1s and setting team priorities
• Served as project lead for crowdfunding and fundraising tool, including organizing and running team meetings and retrospectives

Technical

• Provided coding guidelines for writing maintainable Sass and inclusive and accessible markup
• Wrote and reviewed front-end code
• Built and deployed design system to establish a consistent look and feel across a variety of applications
• Created site wireframes and prototypes to improve internal discussions and planning about site features and organization

Culture

• Developed and presented all-staff training on accessibility testing and best practices
• Provided guidance on the organization's transition to being wholly virtual/remote (including being featured on our blog)

Senior Front-end Developer

Detroit Trading

Jun 2014 – Apr 2017

Leadership

• Collaborated across the company, including CEO, .NET and Angular developers, designer and sales, to advocate for UX and to complete successful projects

Technical

• Led A-B testing of lead-generation forms to increase engagement and conversion. Lead funnel conversion increased from ~5% to more than 10% through improvements to copy, design and mobile layout.
• Responsible for front-end development of our brand sites (car.show and usedca.rs), online automotive shopping tools (for brands such as Time, AutoGuide, CNET and Kmart) and data-driven dashboards for our clients
• Created brand style guide and built component-based Sass stylesheets to make development more efficient
• Prepared site wireframes and prototypes to improve internal discussions and planning about site features and organization

Freelance Web Designer + Developer

Sep 2004 – Jun 2014

Languages

• Sass/CSS
• JavaScript
• HTML
• PHP
• Ruby

Frameworks + Libraries

• Vue.js
• React
• Ruby on Rails

Tools

• Version control
• Screen readers
• Jira
• Google Analytics

Intro to Sass

MICA (2016), Baltimore Innovation Week (2015)

Superpowered Front-end Theming with Sass & SMACSS Workshop

Baltimore Innovation Week (2015)

Static Site Generators

Bmore on Rails (2015)

30 Tech Concepts in 30 Mins

AIGA Baltimore Ink & Pixels (2015)

HTML 101 Workshop

National Women In Tech Nonprofit (2014)

WordPress 101 Workshop

Baltimore Innovation Week (2013), Mesh Baltimore (2013)

National Women In Tech Nonprofit

Baltimore chapter leader and teacher from 2013–2017. Organized and presented hands-on workshops for women to learn web and software development. Coordinated teachers and volunteer teaching assistants across a wide variety of tech subjects. Built relationships with local companies and nonprofits who can provide space for our classes or other sponsorship opportunities. At the time I stepped down, the chapter had 1500+ members and had hosted 60+ events.

Creative Mixtape

Collaborative events between 7 Baltimore professional design associations. Participated in event and sponsorship logistics, including development of the one-page event site for our kickoff December 2016 event.

Bmore on Rails, AIGA, Mesh Baltimore

speaker and member

ChangeEngine

Wrote a column on the intersection of art and measurable impact from 2012–2014 (archive of articles)

Spirited Woman Giving Back

2017 Baltimore Spirited Woman Awards

Technologist of the Year

2015 Baltimore Innovation Awards

Tech Mission Org of the Year

2015 Baltimore Innovation Awards

PASSHE Women's Consortium Annual Undergraduate Women's Leadership Institution Scholarship