Hanna Kras is a front-end web developer, writer, videographer, and overall communicator, with experience in public, private, and voluntary sectors.
She got her start in the wild west days of the internet, altering markup to get the perfect color scheme and look and feel for her Xanga (RIP), then her MySpace. Later she partnered with an online friend to create a website to host their StarCraft clan and run a couple of bots in their channel. What began as a hobby soon turned into a career when she discovered her passions for English, communications, film, and design could be paired with coding to create her own brand new webpages and interfaces from scratch, like magic!
Hanna’s currently a Drupal Developer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she works with a Drupal stack of HTML, Twig, YAML, PHP, JavaScript, Svelte, CSS, and SASS. NIST had a defunct exhibit space running on Windows 7 with some locally hosted files built out by a now-defunct private company. Hanna rebuilt the entire exhibit space, complete with 10 separate kiosks, using AstroJS and saving the government hundreds of thousands of dollars. She’s the go-to for any internal tools and does it all from development, site building, and maintenance to training, access permissions control, and project management. For funsies she enjoys building out little Python tooling for automating processes.
As a lifelong lover of learning, Hanna is always looking to add new tools to her toolbox with continued education in web development, JavaScript frameworks, UI/UX design and research, interaction design, graphic design, Python, SQL, and computer science.
Current interests include:
- internet privacy
- cinema
- Gothic novels
- game design
- the ways in which AI is bad for humanity
