Lea Verou — Résumé

Lea Verou

front-end developer

About

My name is Lea Verou (Lea being short for Michailia or Μιχαήλια) and I wear many hats. I have a long-standing passion for open web standards, and I am one of the few Invited Experts of the W3C CSS Working Group (the committee that designs and extends the CSS language) since 2012. I love sharing knowledge and have given almost 100 invited talks at web design/web development conferences around the world. My talks are known for their interactive style and are often cited as one of the few examples of live coding that doesn’t suck.

Contacts

Phone Number:

+496170961709

Email:

lea@verou.me

Website:

http://www.lea.verou.me

Skills

Responsive design

HTML/CSS

JS

Design

Work Experience

Teaching Assistant | Athens University of Economics and Business | 2010 - 2012

Co-designed every aspect of the “Web Technologies and Programming” 4th year undergraduate course, including syllabus and coursework, taught the labs, guest lectured the CSS parts.

Developer Relations | W3C/MIT | 2012-2013

Educating web professionals about open web standards and facilitating community input for W3C specifications under development.

Instructor | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 2015 - 2016

Educating web professionals about open web standards and facilitating community input for W3C specifications under development.

Developer Relations | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 2018 - present

Co-teaching 6.813/6.831, a course with ~250 students, 9 teaching assistants and 3 instructors.

Interests

Open web standards, user experience, UI design, web development education, front-end web development, API design, web accessibility, technical writing, graphic design, color theory, typography.

Achievements

The net Awards 2011

November 2011

Finalist for The net Awards 2011 in the “Brilliant newcomer” category

The net Awards 2014

July 2014

Finalist for The net Awards 2014 in the “Outstanding contribution” and “Conference Talk of the Year” categories

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Publications

CSS Secrets, O’Reilly Media

November, 2015

Translated into 8 languages, Average of 4.7/5 on Amazon, 88 reviews.

Chapter in Smashing Book #3

October 2016

Restyle, Recode, Reimagine With CSS3