Hi, I’m Coral Sheldon-Hess.
This is me ➡
I dig birds, coffee, good user experience/accessibility, data privacy, native plants, and autumn.
My partner, a cockatiel (in the photo to the right), a conure, two budgies, and I live within the unceded ancestral homeland of the Onöndowa’ga; this land is also known as western New York, USA.
In the work world I’m technology teacher, web developer, systems integrator, data wrangler, and librarian with a spare masters degree in electrical and computer engineering. I pride myself on writing useful documentation and running effective meetings. My work and volunteering are fully remote for now and for the foreseeable future, which is fine: I’ve been remote or working on projects with distributed teams since the mid-aughts. More details about my work experience are available on the What I do page or my CV (on GitHub).
In my spare time I enjoy crafting, brewing up herbal remedies, reading, playing cozy video games, gardening, bicycling, and bird-watching. I make crocheted items, chainmaille jewelry, candles, painted rocks, and various things requiring a Cricut. Right now I’m trying (again) to learn to knit socks.
If you would like me to teach an online workshop on tech or crafts, to speak at your virtual-friendly event, to make you an herbal salve or something out of chainmaille, or to help you with your website, please also feel free to contact me.