Michail Yasonik

Lead WCAG 2.1 adoption across disciplines and product teams focusing on speed to adoption for low hanging fruit and internationalized compliance testing
Rebuilt accessibility training focusing on practical guidance for 300+ engineers and bi-weekly bootcamp
Unblocked axe-core upgrade catching 1000+ new issues and reducing flakiness in ~1600 component tests
Facilitated user research of motion preferences to develop product strategy and launch settings on web

started Sept 2022

Lead multi-pronged efforts in accessibility automation at scale (a11y testing in CI, AOM snapshot testing, persona-based rules) across multiple teams
Designed flexible and robust components and visualizations that can be deployed by teams without oversight with reasonable accessibility certainty
Integrated accessibility into the SDLC across Product, Design, QE, and Content

started Aug 2021

Upskilled design and eng orgs with trainings, fostering champions, and self-serve resources
Defined and developed complex components to meet WCAG guidelines and ARIA specs
Trained others in screen reader testing (NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver) and lead ACR/VPAT initiatives

started June 2018

UX tech lead of parallel, quarterly major initiatives, completing: UI architecture, scoping and estimating, creating timelines, prioritizing tickets, and team mentorship
Fostered strong cross‐team communication and technical ownership in small teams of UI engineers, leading the team to achieve their quarterly goals
Guided technical direction of broader UI team with heavy emphasis on scaling (from 10 to 30+ engineers), accessibility, and component design
Evolved interview process to reflect modern web development and reduce unconscious bias

started Sept 2017

Co-tech lead of a team of ~20 engineers
Reduced support case volume 25% by migrating a legacy project to a new architecture, normalizing disparate APIs, and fixing user flows for common tasks
Helped teams deliver on-time by hopping onto at-risk projects
Set standards for new projects, including: full test coverage, BEM, and style documentation and a mock server (reclaiming ~12 developer-weeks in Q4 2016)
Organized and lead Ember office hours and moderated mob code reviews to help elevate teammates’ development skills

started June 2015

Built responsive sites, ranging: simple, static pages; large, ecommerce sites; and complex web apps
Created a standardized boilerplate, minimizing developer startup costs for each new initiative
Spearheaded modern workflows to save developer time and improve maintainability for long standing projects
Developed an HTML email builder cutting development time by 80%

started Jan 2014

Managed development process and client requests, while presenting to outside stakeholders
Created a website, including: a blog, event registration system, private document sharing and a resource checkout library

started March 2013

Wrote a REST API and a responsive UI following test-driven development (TDD) for an internal tool
Maintained Progressive’s homepage

Summer 2013

Sept 2011–Dec 2013

Work experience timeline