Work

A few roles and projects I’ve been part of—focused on frontend engineering, systems work, and clear communication.

Freelance Website Designer & Developer

elanaolson.com

Oct 2025Present · Remote · Full-time

Consulting small businesses and larger companies on smart, scalable web development

  • Website creation, redesign, maintenance
  • Contract frontend engineering in React or Angular (TS/JS)

Women's Group Leader & Facilitator

Co-founder

Jul 2023Present · Remote · Part-time

Co-ead a local women’s group focused on creating a safe, welcoming space for thoughtful conversation and shared learning.

  • Facilitate regular discussions on personal growth, life skills, and gaining new perspectives, helping participants feel heard, supported, and connected.
  • Build community through empathetic leadership, active listening, and respect for diverse experiences, fostering trust and meaningful engagement over time.

Career Break

Personal Sabbatical

Jan 2025Oct 2025 · Remote · Full-time

Focused on travel, health, and recharging after several years in a high-intensity role. Checkout my travel section to see where I've been recently. Currently exploring roles that align with my skills and passions in frontend development and technical content creation.


Atlassian

Software Engineer

Jul 2020Dec 2024 · Remote · Full-time

I joined Atlassian's Confluence team as a new grad software engineer eager to tackle frontend development on an awesome product.

  • Led cross-functional efforts to develop product components for Confluence, integrating with UI components from Atlaskit and advocating for best practices across teams. Developed mostly with React and TypeScript, did large refactors of JavaScript with React with Redux
  • Developed technical guides and extensive documentation to educate internal developers on new features and architectural decisions.
  • Actively collaborated with designers, engineers, and product teams to ensure feature success, deploying projects to subsets of users for feedback and iteration to develop impactful projects on top business OKRs.
  • Core product contributions: collaborative features like reactions and comments, large legacy refactors of page comments, updating Atlaskit platform components, revamping the Confluence onboarding suite, running experiments for landing new customers.

SJSU Research Foundation

STEM Mentor

Aug 2018Jan 2020 · San Jose, CA · Part-time

I offered high school students mentorship in their science classes.

  • I aided in teaching the scientific method, teaching students how to use autocad for 3D printing, and assisting in their experimental process.

Google

Developer Relations Intern

May 2019Sep 2019 · Sunnyvale, CA · Full-time

Interned a second year on the Angular team to build an ecosystem housing useful tooling and technologies for building Angular apps

  • Interned with the Angular team (Summer 2018, 2019), contributing to community initiatives and evaluating tools and technologies to enhance the Angular ecosystem.
  • Created ngEcosystem, a platform connecting developers with community resources, enhancing ecosystem engagement.
  • Authored a beginner-friendly guide, 'How to build an Angular app with custom components, routing, services, forms, and Angular Material in 6 steps.'

Google

Developer Relations Intern

May 2018Sep 2018 · Mountain View, CA · Full-time

Interned on the Angular team to develop and share tooling, documentation, and guides on migrating from AngularJS to Angular

  • Developed ngMigration-Assistant, a tool to analyze AngularJS applications, provide migration statistics, and recommend custom migration paths to Angular, addressing key challenges in transitioning from AngularJS to Angular v2+.
  • Collaborated with major customers to identify migration pain points, guiding the design and implementation of effective solutions.
  • Presented learnings and tools at local and international conferences, meetups, and through a detailed blog, fostering community engagement and adoption.

Tappity

Frontend Engineering Intern

Jan 2017Nov 2017 · Palo Alto, CA · Full-time

Learned and built a website for Tappity using JavaScript, HTML, and Bootstrap CSS

  • Contributed to the development of an interactive educational web app, increasing platform usability and engagement.

If you’d like to collaborate, start with a short note—what you’re building, what’s stuck, and what “good” looks like.