Skip to content
View pamelagilmour's full-sized avatar

Block or report pamelagilmour

Block user

Prevent this user from interacting with your repositories and sending you notifications. Learn more about blocking users.

You must be logged in to block users.

Maximum 250 characters. Please don't include any personal information such as legal names or email addresses. Markdown supported. This note will be visible to only you.
Report abuse

Contact GitHub support about this user’s behavior. Learn more about reporting abuse.

Report abuse
pamelagilmour/README.md

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Pamela Gilmour β€” Software Engineer

CMS β€’ Web Dev β€’ MCP Server Prototyping

Modernizing legacy systems with a user-first approach. Passionate about MCP, accessibility, scalability, and clean code.

πŸ› οΈ Tech Stack

Frontend: JavaScript React Sass Redux PHP WordPress

Backend: Express FeathersJS MCP

Testing & APIs: Jest REST API Postman

Tools: Git Agile WCAG ARIA

πŸ”­ Current Focus

  • Migrating multi-site content to Gutenberg for improved usability.
  • Prototyping AI integrations for KQED products.
  • Advocating for test-driven development and robust code reviews.

πŸš€ Featured Projects

  • KQED's Support Site Redesign (2025): Collaborated cross-functionally with Design to develop custom WordPress blocks for enhanced accessibility and user engagement. Achieved a notable increase in donations within hours of soft launch. Tech: WordPress, PHP, TypeScript, React, Sass

  • California Voter Guide (2021–ongoing): Progressed from building presentational components to advocating for strategic planning for scalability and leading frontend development across major election cycles serving California with focus on the Bay Area. Tech: WordPress, React, Redux, Sass

  • Youth Media Challenge Redesign (2021–2022): Modernized a legacy codebase and enabled a decoupled SSR/CSR architecture, boosting team velocity and supporting responsive RESTful features. Tech: Webpack, REST API, React, Redux, Express, SSR/CSR

  • Bay Area Hip Hop Guide (2021): Built dynamic, interactive UI components and refined Sass expertise to deliver engaging content for Bay Area music fans. Tech: React, Sass

πŸ’¬ Ask Me About

  • Frontend Refactor, SEO refinements (2023- 2025)
  • KQED Intern Training (2022)
  • My Internship at Postman (2021)
  • Classes at City College of San Francisco (2021–2022)
  • 6-month Fully Remote Software Engineering Immersive Bootcamp at General Assembly (2020)

🌱 Always Learning

Building secure MCP servers to enhance experience in agents and media platforms.

πŸ“« Reach Me

⚑ Fun Facts

  • Built a horoscope app and a fortune cookie app in bootcamp!
  • Licensed acupuncturist, non-practicing (2015–ongoing)

Pinned Loading

  1. npm-expansions npm-expansions Public

    Forked from npm/npm-expansions

    Send us a pull request by editing expansions.txt

    JavaScript

  2. startpage4work startpage4work Public

    HTML

  3. KQED/frontend-training-pgilmour KQED/frontend-training-pgilmour Public

    The training project for Pamela Gilmour

    JavaScript