Lea Verou, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

- Evaluating user needs and improving product design and usability across all company products, with an emphasis on Web Awesome- Utilizing my web standards experience to collect web platform pain points from across the company and translate them to new and existing web standards proposals

Wakefield, Ma, Us

The TAG oversees the technical direction of the Web. It consists of inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, 8 elected, and 3 appointed seats. TAG review is required for shipping in Google Chrome, and for any W3C specification to advance.As a (twice elected) TAG member, I have:∙ Participated in 100+ reviews of web technology proposals with a focus on user needs & API design.∙ Created a “fast track” design review process that reduced response time by 88%.∙ Led successful effort to increase visibility and time allocation for Design Principles.∙ Proposed & led a Design Principles for Developers publication (ongoing).∙ Acted as TAG ↔ TC39 (JS WG) liaison, improved collaboration with TC39.

Wakefield, Ma, Us

The CSS WG designs the CSS language, used on every website worldwide.∙ Led over 5 CSS features from conception to wide implementation across browsers∙ Co-led the effort to significantly simplify CSS Nesting syntax, by driving consensus through strategic intermediate milestones.∙ Driving force behind expanding CSS to wide gamut colors, through a combination of spec work, consensus building, dev evangelism, and open source code.

Wakefield, Ma, Us

First devrel hire at W3C.∙ Improved developer understanding of the standards process, conveyed input to W3C∙ Co-organized W3Conf 2013 and coordinated outreach, achieving +70% profit over the previous iteration.

Product & usability consulting, speaking, writing, web standards work.Notable clients: Google, Mozilla, O’Reilly Media, Stripe, Wix, McKinsey & Company.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

∙ Created & launched Mavo, a novel programming language that empowers novices to create full stack web applications. Led 12 MIT students (2 grad) and outside volunteers to contribute. 2 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier conferences.∙ Created Lifesheets, a novel system empowering non-programmers to make their own standalone personal tracking applications. 70% of user study subjects preferred a lifesheet over a mainstream tracking app, and 100% over a spreadsheet.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

∙ Fewer than 0.5% of PhD candidates at MIT EECS become Instructors.∙ Only a handful of PhD candidates have co-created a course.∙ Co-taught “User Interface Design & Implementation”, MIT’s main HCI course at the time. ~250 students (grad + undergrad). Managed 9 TAs. (Spring 2018)∙ Co-created and co-taught “Design for the Web: Languages and User Interfaces”. (Spring 2020, 2022, 2023)

Tel Aviv, Il

Paid advisory position. Provided feedback about Wix's developer products, both regarding Developer Experience, as well as positioning to achieve product-market fit within the front-end developer market. The board included people such as Jeff Atwood, founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse.

Online communities startup. Incorporated in 2008 and raised a €80k friends & family seed round, exit in 2013.Launched two online communities and drove them to national adoption (0→1):∙ e-steki.gr (2005 - Present), mycat.gr (2006 - 2022) - ~500k visits and ~2.5M pageviews/month (combined). - Drove user acquisition to 80k registrations (0.75% of the country’s population)∙ Acquisitions: iSchool.gr (first Greek school student community, 25k users), One Night Chat (innovative web-based talk show, ~80k views/episode)∙ Strategic partnership with ANT1 (major Greek TV channel)∙ Managed a small team of developers & designers, and a team of >30 content moderators

Graphic design (Logo design, corporate identity, posters etc) and web design projects for small business clients

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Master Of Science (Msc), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

Electrical And Computer Engineering