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The photo of Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska. A caucasian woman in her 30's, with shoulder length brown hair and big glasses. Wearing a green longsleeve.

Hi, I'm Paulina
senior frontend engineer
& accessibility expert

Since 2017, I've built interfaces used by millions of people daily, with a focus on making the web accessible to everyone.

In 2020, I joined Instapage, an enterprise Angular application in the marketing tech space, as one of two frontend engineers. From 2022 to 2026, I was a software engineer at GitLab, where I contributed to the Source Code Management group and led the Product Accessibility Working Group.

My work spans the full development lifecycle, from early ideation and design collaboration to implementation, testing, and measuring impact in production. I specialise in Vue.js, digital accessibility, and complex legacy codebases. I'm passionate about well-organised code, inclusive design, and making sure every feature I build works seamlessly with assistive technologies.

Before tech, I studied classical music and English Studies with a focus on sociolinguistics, and taught English as a Second Language. Along the way, I met and worked with people with physical and learning disabilities: from children realising their full potential thanks to educational accommodations, to a deaf percussionist and a one-handed cellist performing specially composed pieces with a symphonic orchestra (see the performance on YouTube). They taught me that it's social barriers and exclusion that limit people's abilities, not differences in how our bodies work.

As a frontend engineer, I strive to make online experiences available to everyone. I believe developers have an obligation not to add new barriers to the digital world, which can take many people to places they cannot reach physically.