Jason Wilson

Professional Summary

Experience

• Staff Front-End Engineer

  Deque Systems

  November 2023 - Present
  • Spearheaded architecture and development of “recipe” layers, reusable component compositions and patterns to standardize UX across 7+ product teams.
  • Engineered complex ARIA components (e.g., Combobox, Menu) for Cauldron, Deque’s accessibility-focused component library, ensuring WCAG-compliant, reusable behavior patterns.
  • Rebuilt MDX-based documentation for component library, decreasing contributor ramp-up time and improving design-dev collaboration.
  • Collaborated across 7+ product teams to support front-end architecture decisions, aligning accessibility tooling and UI consistency in complex application environments.

• Senior Product Developer

  Deque Systems

  March 2019 - November 2023
  • Modernized axe DevTools browser extension, building robust end-to-end test infrastructure and improving release reliability across multiple environments.
  • Led UX overhaul to support light/dark mode parity, collaborating closely with design to unify component behaviors and themes.
  • Developed interactive testing tools for developers to validate WCAG compliance, contributing to user growth to over 300k monthly users.

• Front End Engineer

  Education Advisory Board

  April 2017 - March 2019
  • Co-led accessibility initiative for legacy Ruby on Rails web app, implementing changes to meet WCAG 2.0 AA compliance across key user workflows.
  • Redesigned responsive email templates to align with brand guidelines, improving mobile readability across thousands of daily email transactions.

• User Experience Engineer

  Daxko

  February 2016 - April 2017
  • Architected and launched Daxko Mobile, a cross-platform Cordova + React app serving 200+ YMCA/JCC clients, providing seamless mobile access to memberships and services.
  • Developed a build process in node for Daxko Mobile to package assets per client across both Android and iOS, reducing build times from hours to minutes.
  • Facilitated weekly front-end best practice workshops to introduce modern JavaScript tools and foster a culture of scalable front-end best practices across multiple teams.

• Interaction Designer

  Daxko

  October 2013 - February 2016
  • Redesigned a high-traffic SaaS dashboard (4M+ monthly hits), improving usability through iterative design informed by extensive research and user testing.
  • Led overhaul of 6+ year-old product interfaces, introducing a modern UI framework to unify look and feel across the product suite.
  • Declared war on Silverlight - refactoring existing components to native HTML5 with progressive fallbacks to flash when necessary.
  • Streamlined front-end asset pipeline, reducing page asset requests from 40+ to fewer than 5, significantly improving load performance.
  • Championed and developed a new design system with components, documentation, and accessibility to unify products. Worked with designers and other developers to ensure the needs of the users and the product were built directly into the system.

• Software Engineer

  Daxko

  April 2011 - October 2013
  • Led interaction design for an Accounting SaaS product serving member based non-profits.
  • Converted the core JavaScript library from a 5 year old version of EXTJS to the latest version of jQuery.
  • Established a web standards group to standardize specifications across all development.
  • Designed a new set of icons to be used across all products.

• Application Developer → Software Engineer

  Infinity Insurance

  July 2007 - April 2011
  • Developed and supported internal tools and customer-facing web apps, modernized legacy front-end systems, and improved claims workflows and data integrity through UI and infrastructure enhancements.