ANNALIADESTEFANO

I’m Annalia DeStefano, a Frontend Engineer (React, TypeScript) based in Tallinn, Estonia | Remote.

Senior Frontend Engineer with ~6 years of experience building accessible, high-quality React and TypeScript interfaces for SaaS and AI-driven products. Strong frontend ownership across design systems, UX improvements, accessibility, testing, and performance in complex, regulated environments.

What I optimize for

Clarity, kindness, and measurable outcomes.

Accessibility that survives complexity

I treat WCAG/ADA as product requirements: testing, component patterns, and clear UX for regulated workflows.

Design systems as leverage

Shared libraries, better defaults, and documentation that help teams ship faster—without losing quality.

Performance you can measure

I focus on real user outcomes: accessibility impact, production errors, and measurable UI improvements.

Compliance-ready UI changes

When regulators ask, I translate requirements into maintainable frontend work and test it like a product.

Skills

Pick a focus—watch how the toolkit changes.

Skill focus

Accessibility (WCAG/ADA)

I treat accessibility as a product constraint, not a polish pass.

Applied in product work

Semantic UIKeyboard and screen reader supportContrast & focus statesInclusive UX patterns

Projects & notes

Case studies and experiments—from open source to community products.

Source.Plus

Platform for curating and licensing AI training datasets with a search-first user experience.

Dundee Daily News

A full-stack web application for local news, developed in collaboration with a designer to bring a community-focused platform to life.

SoundBraid

A web platform designed as a space for multimodal, experimental anthropological work—sonic, visual, and textual materials treated as equal parts of meaning.