Client · Nonprofit
Sahel Sage
I rebuilt the WordPress site for a girls' education nonprofit in Burkina Faso. It's now their main donation channel — all traffic and brand promotion runs through it.
Better Code
Code isn't just syntax —
it's communication.
I'm Vania Nettleford, a Staff Engineer focused on building maintainable systems and improving code quality at scale.
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Latest writing
- 01What if the boring parts of running your business just… handled themselves?
I used to end every week with a pile of things I hadn’t gotten to.…
- 02The Engineering Lesson I Learned From Fixing a “Simple” Table
I thought I was fixing a small accessibility issue. We had tables rendering with only…
- 03Engineering Lab: A Small CSS Change That Simplified My Layouts
During a recent code review, a colleague suggested using gap instead of individual margins inside…
- 04When “Correct UI” Isn’t the Best UX: Rethinking a Login Button
In theory, UI should always reflect the correct state. In practice, that’s not always the…
- 05Avoiding JS Code Smells for Layout and Transitions
In real-world React applications, components often start small but quickly grow into complex beasts that…
Selected work
Proof, not promises.
A couple of things I've built and what came of them.
Personal project
Find My Next Investment
A rental-property calculator I built to replace my own deal-analysis spreadsheet. It worked so well the spreadsheet became obsolete — I still sell it on Etsy, the tool is free.
Spacing, reconsidered
.stack {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 1.5rem;
}The layout owns its spacing.
Out of office
I also shoot.
The human bit
About Vania
I'm a staff engineer who loves making complicated things feel simple. I also help small business owners automate the everyday pileup — receipts, tasks, and email triage. It's the same systems thinking, just pointed at a different kind of problem.