Hello

Hi, I'm Zach. I do accessible front-end web development, primarily in the "front of the front end" part of the front end spectrum (e.g. HTML/CSS/non-framework JavaScript). I also enjoy testing and related things. These days my primary focus is education through public speaking and creating documentation for various disciplines with a focus on readability/understandability.

Until 2020 I was going by another name - my history is slightly disjoint right now due to having to port things over. This is the name (and domain &c) I'll be using going forward, so please move accordingly.

FAQ

Where can I see your work?

I still have a GitHub account. (Private contributions are turned on so you can see that I do in fact do things sometimes, as my recent dayjobs have hosted their code on GitHub.) I don't have any real public work to show of these days. The few side projects I have I mostly keep to myself.

How can I contact you?

Please use the email in the footer. I don't like using LinkedIn's messaging system - I'll probably still read them but it's a pain in the ass to respond to them.

I don't have any social media besides LinkedIn (if that even counts), so if you're not using one of the two above options you're talking to someone who is very much not me.

Recruitment stuff

Ground rules:

• I will not work at startups, especially early stage startups. I do not want to be a early/founding engineer, or to build a product up from nothing. (I am also very opinionated about who startups are taking cash from, which has a tendency to eliminate a lot of them from my interest anyway.)
• I want nothing to do with a job that focuses around AI/Crypto/NFTs/Blockchain/Web3. I hate all of these. I will not engage with them in good faith.
• I vastly prefer working at companies that have established practices and support networks for underrepresented groups (via ERGs or similar). (Also that said support networks are properly staffed and actually supported and listened to by upper management. I want to be somewhere that my being queer and disabled isn't a token, but is supported and seen in a healthy way.)
• I will not work in an office. I will do twice a year visits for a few days. Office environments are typically hostile to my well-being and productivity, whereas work-from-home has been very good for me in terms of letting me do my best work.

All of that said -

I greatly appreciate getting a company name, if not a full posting in an initial message. I also like hearing about if a company has good transgender health benefits, and if I'm able to be compensated entirely in cash instead of being forced to split it between cash and nonsense like RSUs.

Since my focus is accessibility - which winds up being a not-insignificant amount of disability rights advocacy - I like being places where I and/or my team are empowered to push for needed change, and have that push supported from the top down. The work I do is pointless if there's no consequence to not going through with change.