Nicole Sullivan
Engineering Manager, WebKit Layout Rendering at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicole Sullivan is an engineering manager and product leader with 16 years building web platform and UI infrastructure, currently leading WebKit Layout & Rendering at Apple after driving Web UI strategy for Chrome at Google. She blends hands-on front-end engineering and test automation (notably contributions to CSSLint, OOCSS and Pivotal's design system) with product strategy—shipping CSS language features like Container Queries, Cascade Layers, :has and modernized form controls. Nicole co-created Open UI and helped turn adversarial framework relationships into collaboration via the Aurora/Framework Primitives efforts, boosting developer velocity across browsers and frameworks. A founder and former director-level leader who completed data science coursework and studied French, she pairs data-driven decision making with deep standards and accessibility expertise to solve cross-functional platform challenges.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science, 100/100 and 98/100, Data Science, 100/100 and 98/100 at CourseraII ex 3, French Language and Culture, II ex 3, French Language and Culture at l'Alliance Française de ParisNational Conservatory of Arts and CraftsBA, Economics, BA, Economics at University of Massachusetts at Amherst
English, French
Github Skills (29)
markdown10
site-design10
javascript10
ui-d10
documentations10
csslint10
testing10
css10
ui-design10
ruby10
css-frameworks10
component-library10
javascripts10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stubbornella/oocss
Jan 2009 - Sep 2013
Object Oriented CSS Framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:142 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicole primarily contributed to the OOCSS framework by implementing and documenting various CSS grid functionalities. Their work included creating CSS classes for full-width grids, adding documentation with examples, and modifying existing grid layouts. The contributions demonstrate a focus on CSS object-oriented principles and the framework's practical application in web page layouts. Additionally, they modified and enhanced the table styles, adding CSS classes for alignment.
object-orientedcsscss-framework
CSSLint/csslint
Jun 2011 - Jan 2016
Automated linting of Cascading Stylesheets
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicole primarily contributed to the testing framework for the CSSLint project. Their commits included creating and modifying test files, specifically focused on rules related to text-indent and width-100. The changes involve writing test cases and verifying CSSLint's behavior against specific CSS code snippets, ensuring the correct identification of potential issues. The user also made updates to the testing files, which included fixing and expanding the existing test coverage.
cascadinglinterlintingstylesheets
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