About
Jeanette Head is currently a senior engineer working for Khan Academy. She can be heard saying controversial things such as "JavaScript isn't that bad" and "I love CSS," both of which are limited expressions of her love of the full-stack web. It's probably the result of Stockholm syndrome from building web applications for several years. Outside of the technical, she snowboards whenever possible, is a beginner ice hockey player, and is an enthusiastic cat mom to kitties Sid and Simba.Speaking
I'm an enthusiastic speaker and I especially love giving lightning talks. I've spoken at local events and at various conferences.
Accessibility for Slytherins (Internal - 2021)
A demo of an unaccesible and an accessible webpage.
Denver Startup Week 2019
Spring One Platform 2018 (co-presented with Hadrien Raffalli)
Winter Tech Forum 2018
The difference that an accessible experience can make (lightning talk, not recorded)
Demo
Codemash 2015
Deconstructing Single Page Applications
- Check out the slides
- Also presented at Ann Arbor .NET Developers in October 2015
Southeast Michigan JavaScript
- Intro to Emmet for faster HTML YouTube
- Ember Data Roller Coaster YouTube
- Drawing the Performance of your WebApp Slides
Ann Arbor PyLadies
- Intro to the Agile Development Process
- How to Refactor
- Math in Python - numpy and scipy
- Simple, Functional Python
Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing 2015
- Panelist: Software Teams in Industry
Girl Develop It Ann Arbor
- Intro to Python (4 session course)
Side projects
Accessibility Escape Room
Still a work in progress, this escape room will test and challenge your knowledge of accessible web interactions.
Elm Boggle
I made a boggle game in Elm as a learning experience. Check it out! (Word validation breaks whenever the free limit of the third party word checking api is exceeded)
Blog posts
Improving accessibility in Pivotal Tracker
You can find more blog posts by me on Atomic Spin
Here are some of my favorites