Julia Nguyen
Julia Nguyen (she/her) is a community organizer, artist, writer, keynote speaker, and staff+ software engineer from Toronto / unceded Tkaronto land and based in San Francisco / unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land.
She’s worked at Shopify, Intuit Mailchimp, Headspace, Indiegogo, Expedia, Minted, ThoughtWorks, Communitech, and Workopolis (now part of Indeed) in a broad variety of web and mobile engineering teams — infrastructure, growth, performance, product, customer support, payments, and design systems.
Julia created if-me.org, an open source nonprofit that builds a mental health communication platform and amplifies community activists and organizations, since 2014. She was one of the founding organizers of the San Francisco chapter of Write/Speak/Code and led mentorship initiatives at the University of Waterloo’s Women in Computer Science Club. At various tech companies, she has founded, and organized employee resource groups focused on disability and mental health justice.
Riding the ever-changing waves of front-end development
The frontend has undergone an impressive evolution in the past few decades, but just how much has this role changed over time?
Navigating front-end architecture like a Neopian
Over the past few years, I’ve gained expertise in front-end web architecture. I’ve done this work at Indiegogo, Headspace, for my open source mental health project if-me.org, and in my current role at Mailchimp.
