Peter Benoit

UI Developer & Design Systems Engineer

I build accessible, high-performance interfaces for federal health infrastructure. CDC. VA. I also make open-source tools for front-end developers.

Experience

Front End Developer

Peraton / VA

Architecting a next-gen template for the VA MVP platform incorporating USWDS & the VA Design System.

  • Delivered a fully USWDS-compliant component library adopted across the VA MVP platform.
  • Reduced component complexity by standardizing design tokens and documentation.

Senior UI Developer

Kaiva Corp / CDC

Modernizing the OPHDST platform — powering AI-driven disease surveillance and real-time public health intelligence.

  • Built real-time data visualization dashboards surfacing AI-driven disease surveillance insights.
  • Modernized a legacy codebase to Vue 3 + Vite, significantly improving build and runtime performance.

User Experience Engineer

Peraton / CDC

Built and scaled the CDC.gov design system, driving accessibility and 508 compliance across federal health infrastructure.

  • Scaled CDC.gov’s design system across 200+ page templates, enabling consistent federal UX at speed.
  • Drove Section 508 compliance to 100% across CDC’s entire public-facing health infrastructure.
React / Next.js Vue 3 Tailwind CSS USWDS TypeScript a11y / 508
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Projects, Open Source & Tools

Florida's Scenic Byways

Every one of Florida's designated scenic routes on a single interactive map.

Tool PWA

RepoWidget

Show off your GitHub projects with style.

Open Source Tool

reQuery

Reactive state and declarative DOM binding for jQuery.

Open Source Library

StorageManager.js

Lightweight manager for localStorage & sessionStorage.

Open Source Library

ImageProcessor

Advanced image processing directly in the browser.

Open Source Tool

Utility Helpers

A comprehensive collection of utility functions.

Open Source Library

URL Shortener

A simple and efficient URL shortener.

Open Source Tool

Image Color Palette Generator

Generate beautiful color palettes from images with ease.

Tool Demo

Tailwind CSS Visibility Plugin

A plugin to control content-visibility in Tailwind CSS.

Open Source Plugin

Tailwind CSS Hue Theme

OKLCH-driven dynamic palettes for Tailwind CSS — one CSS variable changes your entire UI.

Open Source Plugin

SaltyKeys

Client-side API key obfuscation for CodePen projects.

Open Source Tool

ResourceLoader.js

A library for dynamically loading scripts, CSS, images, JSON, and more.

Open Source Library

Maths.js

A lightweight Math library for advanced mathematical operations.

Open Source Library

GetViewport

Responsive breakpoint detection for JavaScript — no magic numbers, no polling.

Open Source Utility

Embed Manager

A tool for managing and embedding various media content.

Open Source Library Tool

Route Hub

Multi-stop trip planner. Build a stop list, sort by proximity, hand off to Google Maps.

Tool Free

Recent Writing

CodePen Demos & Curiosities