Gaiety's visual representation as a fursona (an original furry fandom character) depicted as an animated gif falling downward with a controlled hand outstretched. Faer hair and tail waves in the wind while their floppy dog ears flop about as well. Fae are an anthromorphic canine like a german shepherd clothed like a human in a t-shirt and denim shorts. Art is by Lynte.

Ava Gaiety W.

Someone taught a dog to code and now it’s everyone’s problem fortune

Fae/Femme/Faer or She/Her

Peek at my open source engineering (OSS) samples (or my Git on Forgejo), or work projects, or conference talks, and volunteer work.

Design examples are scattered throughout, but here are a few: Rendia, The SEED, Oncue, Static Site Generation, and this very site. Art can be found in my gallery.

Independent Contractor (PowerSchool, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)

(June 2024 - Current) Surfacing scientific papers for educators who can make a difference. Built with Phoenix, Typescript, Lit and PostgreSQL.

pronoun-monster

Howl your pronouns loud and proud; served with NodeJS with TailwindCSS and svg spritesheets.

Static Site Generation

A collection of sites built with the static site generator eleventy and Nuxt designed leveraging Tailwind UI

Talk: Thinking in Stories: Component-First

Storybook and Ember.js make quality friends.

Talk: Achieving A11y Automation Testing

A success story and a look at how anyone can automate A11y regardless of framework.

Austin Give Camp - The SEED

Adult & Family Learning Community
Minecraft screenshot on a widescreen display demonstrating shaders, mods, resource packs and an updated GUI with Distant Horizons enabled.

Modding Minecraft 2025

Screenshot of wg-easy (wireguard) running with a client called OnePlus Pro 8 showing an up and down speed.

Secure your SSH with Wireguard

Self Hosting: Backup with Rsync

...read more in the blog

ava@wroten.me

Wish to contact me about meetup or conference talks, work opportunities or otherwise? Reach out to me via email.

Resume

Work history, skills, volunteering and talks given all in a one page PDF.

Linkery

Like a Linktree! See where we can connect.

Git

Coding projects and such on a self hosted Forgejo instance.