What a front of the front end developer brings to your team

Session Category Theming, Design, & Usability Room 159 Audience All Attendees Time Slot Sat 9:45am to 10:30am (2/22/25)

Are you a front of the front end developer who focuses on CSS, semantic HTML, and presentational Javascript, and do you wonder if your skillset matters in the world of modern web development? Do you think about the best way to mark up an SVG to be as accessible as possible, and write Twig templates with (relative) ease? You’re not alone and your front of the front end development knowledge is still important today.

This session discusses why your front of the front end development skills are still relevant in today’s web development ecosystem, how to convince your team that a front of the front end developer is a valuable asset, and how front of the front and back of the front end developers can work together to develop powerful front end solutions in Drupal and beyond.

Let’s show the web development community that front of the front end developers contribute so much to a team!

About the Speaker

Aubrey Sambor

Lead Engineer at Lullabot

Massachusetts

Aubrey Sambor is a Lead Engineer who loves creating accessible websites using clean and modern CSS. She initially learned to code in the late 90s when her high school friends told her about this cool website called Geocities. She decided she wanted a site of her own, so she bought an HTML 4 book and taught herself the ways of code. 

Aubrey graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelors degree in computer science and started her career building custom PHP web portals for clients, eventually discovering Drupal in 2008. She is passionate about design systems, accessibility, and the latest and greatest CSS techniques.

In her spare time, Aubrey loves to knit, spin her own yarn on one of her two spinning wheels, and walk on the many trails and paths throughout Massachusetts. She's left-handed and has always disliked it when her classmates took all the left-handed scissors in art class.