maya avendaño
▲ community engineer @ vercel · maker · kickboxer · figure skater · olympic weightlifter
Hiiiiii, i'm Maya! ⋆.˚ ☾⭒ Welcome to my little corner of the internet .✦ ݁˖
I love building things that feel useful, delightful and human-considered. My work has lived somewhere between engineering, design, and people.
I'm a design engineer and builder at heart. I spent 4+ years in the world of startups building in engineering teams, mainly with Svelte. Most recently I was a founding senior frontend engineer, building product at the 0 → 1 stage, leading on frontend and design.
Going back, my professional engineering journey started at Siemens within the rail industry, in a different field of engineering. 4 years later during the 2020 lockdown, I got curious and started to learn how to code, following Angela Yu's Udemy course every day on the nights and weekends for #100DaysOfCode. I fell in love with being able to create things on the web for myself and other humans, and the rest is history.
At Vercel, I’m an engineer embedded in community. I help to build the infrastructure that makes our community programs run more effectively and automating manual processes to improve how the team operates.
I also connect with our developer community globally and locally in the UK, spending time with the humans using our products at in-person events, coordinating our global Vercel IRL program which supports builders across the world, and organising community events end to end.
I've been heavily involved in bringing developers and builders together in London, with planning and hosting meetups, hackathons, and dev events, as well as DX work with talks / speaking and MCing on stage, and hosting our community live sessions online. I care about creating spaces, online or IRL, where people feel welcome, are curious to learn and feel empowered to ship things.
I'm a collector of curiosities ~ I love tinkering with side projects and experiments , and I train and compete across different sports. I'm a kickboxer on a journey to black belt (2 more belts to go!), a figure skater, and an olympic weightlifter. I also dabble in dance, and I'm a cat momma of two (Churro and Toast).
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