# mayven

> Maya Avendaño is a product-minded frontend engineer. Currently at Vercel, building community systems and experiences. Personal notebook with work history, writing, projects, and side quests.

## About Maya Avendaño

Maya Avendaño is a product-minded frontend engineer at Vercel, building community systems and experiences. She has spent 4+ years in startup frontend teams, including founding senior frontend work at ChaseLabs, rich editor and interaction work at Outverse, product UI at HiPeople, and earlier rail software engineering at Siemens. This site is a personal notebook: work history, writing, side projects, and things she loves.

## Main

- [Home](https://mayven.computer): Maya Avendaño is a product-minded frontend engineer. Currently at Vercel, building community systems and experiences. Personal notebook with work history, writing, projects, and side quests.
- [Work](https://mayven.computer/work): Professional work history by Maya Avendaño: product-minded frontend engineering at Vercel, founding frontend at ChaseLabs, editor and interaction work at Outverse, product UI at HiPeople, and rail software at Siemens.
- [Now](https://mayven.computer/now): What Maya Avendaño is currently focused on — work, projects, and life updates.
- [About](https://mayven.computer/about): A character sheet for Maya Avendaño: notable strengths, power-ups, and the sports she trains, from kickboxing belts to lifting PBs.

## Work history

- [Vercel](https://mayven.computer/work#vercel): DX / Community Engineer (2026 → now). I joined the Engineering org as a DX Engineer, later moving to Marketing as a Community Engineer. I've helped build the community platform and the systems behind Vercel's global community programs.
- [ChaseLabs](https://mayven.computer/work#chaselabs): Senior Frontend Engineer (2025). I joined ChaseLabs as their founding frontend engineer as engineer #2 / employee #5.
- [Outverse](https://mayven.computer/work#outverse): Frontend Engineer (2023–2025). At Outverse I was one of 3 frontend engineers, in a small engineering team of 5; I got to work on a breadth of interesting interfaces.
- [HiPeople](https://mayven.computer/work#hipeople): Software Engineer (2021–2022). I joined HiPeople (a HR Tech product for assessments and reference checks) when the employee count was < 20.
- [Siemens](https://mayven.computer/work#siemens): Intern → Graduate → Software Engineer (2017–2021). I started my professional career in the railway industry! I joined Siemens as an engineering intern and left four years later as a software engineer. I worked across rail infrastructure, internal tools and technical education before joining the software team building communication and control software for the Elizabeth line.

## Writing

- [Writing](https://mayven.computer/writing): Essays and notes from Maya Avendaño on design, engineering, side projects, and building on the web.

### Blog

- [Design is emotional & other creative beliefs](https://mayven.computer/blog/creative-beliefs): Some of my beliefs about creativity and design.
- [Introducing Mayven](https://mayven.computer/blog/introducing-mayven): A little update to my online identity
- [Thoughts from 2024](https://mayven.computer/blog/thoughts-from-2024): Thoughts and reflections from 2024
- [Thoughts from 2023](https://mayven.computer/blog/thoughts-from-2023): Thoughts and reflections from 2023
- [Learning Tagalog](https://mayven.computer/blog/learning-tagalog): Some things I've found useful when learning Tagalog as a second language
- [E is for Escape: Immersive 3D Space with Threlte](https://mayven.computer/blog/e-is-for-escape): E is for Escape - project for my week E of the alphabet superset challenge
- [D is for Dimension: 3D CozyTimer](https://mayven.computer/blog/d-is-for-dimension): D is for Dimension - project for my week D of the alphabet superset challenge
- [C is for Cats: Slack Cats](https://mayven.computer/blog/c-is-for-cats): C is for Cats - project for my week C of the alphabet superset challenge
- [B is for Bebo: BeHere Social App](https://mayven.computer/blog/b-is-for-bebo): B is for Bebo - project for my week B of the alphabet superset challenge
- [A is for ADHD: Svelte Fidget](https://mayven.computer/blog/a-is-for-adhd): A is for ADHD - project for my week A of the alphabet superset challenge
- [Allow me to re-introduce myself](https://mayven.computer/blog/allow-me-to-introduce-myself): Changing my name as an adult
- [In memory of Lolo 🕊️](https://mayven.computer/blog/in-memory-of-lolo): The eulogy/poem I wrote for my Lolo's funeral
- [The Win Jar - hacking our positive psychology and building with AWS Amplify](https://mayven.computer/blog/the-win-jar): Creating a web app to help us harness the power of celebrating small wins ⚡️
- [My life system (2022) - how I organise my life and the tools I use](https://mayven.computer/blog/my-life-system-2022-how-i-organise-my-life-and-the-tools-i-use-notion-todoist-sunsama-gcal-more): A post explaining how I use digital tools to organise my life (Notion, Todoist, Sunsama, GCal + more)
- [Autumn 2021 in Review: Fresh starts & finding balance 🍂](https://mayven.computer/blog/month-autumn-in-review-fresh-starts-finding-balance): New beginnings
- [Summer 2021 in Review ☀️](https://mayven.computer/blog/month-summer-2021-in-review): Going back to the office, the gym, therapy and more
- [5 things I learned as an intern and graduate engineer](https://mayven.computer/blog/5-things-i-learned-as-an-intern-and-graduate-engineer): Reflections after finishing my graduate scheme
- [Back on the ice & saying goodbye to Harry](https://mayven.computer/blog/month-may-2021-back-on-the-ice-saying-goodbye-to-harry): Returning to the rink and the passing of a childhood friend
- [What I learned from waking up at 5AM](https://mayven.computer/blog/what-i-learned-from-waking-up-at-5am): Joining the #5AMCoders challenge and my reflections
- [Share your work - why I'm starting a blog](https://mayven.computer/blog/share-your-work-why-im-starting-a-blog): My first blog post and what inspired me to start

### Notes

- [Frontend Tidbits](https://mayven.computer/notes/frontend-tidbits): Frontend tidbits
- [Svelte and Tailwind quick project set up](https://mayven.computer/notes/svelte-with-tailwind-quick-project-set-up): Quickly set up a project with Svelte and Tailwind
- [An easy way to not include localhost in Umami analytics tracking](https://mayven.computer/notes/not-include-localhost-in-umami-tracking): Use Umami data-domains to exclude localhost from analytics tracking
- [Software and apps I use](https://mayven.computer/notes/software-and-apps-i-use): A list of apps and software I use
- [Setting up my mac for development](https://mayven.computer/notes/setting-up-my-mac-for-development): Things I do and install when setting up a new macbook laptop for development
- [My first note](https://mayven.computer/notes/my-first-note): A note about jumping back into sharing and creating again
- [What I use - my tech set up](https://mayven.computer/notes/what-i-use-my-tech-setup): Equipment and tech I use and have used

## Projects & things

- [Projects](https://mayven.computer/projects): Side projects and experiments, for the love of making things.
- [Radical](https://mayven.computer/projects/radical): The visual calendar; time, reimagined.
- [Orbits](https://mayven.computer/projects/orbits): A personal network visualiser, your second brain for who you know and who you meet.
- [Veopia](https://mayven.computer/projects/veopia): A digital neighbourhood for discovering personal websites and connecting with other cool humans in the digital world.
- [maya.computer](https://mayven.computer/projects/maya-computer): A nostalgic entry for the Svelte Hack, just for funsies
- [ADHD Directory](https://mayven.computer/projects/adhd-directory): A tool to help ADHD folks find medication and independent pharmacies amidst the medication shortage.
- [Experiments](https://mayven.computer/projects/experiments): Miscellaneous explorations and experiments.
- [Alphabet Superset](https://mayven.computer/projects/alphabet-superset): A creative challenge to build quickly, learn more Svelte and just get things out into the world.
- [Things](https://mayven.computer/things): Things Maya Avendaño loves — movies, books, music, places, and more.
- [Wall of Love](https://mayven.computer/wall-of-love): Positive feedback from colleagues, teammates, and community members about Maya Avendaño’s work.