Lead Frontend Engineer | Systems Architecture & Technical Leadership
About Me
I am a Lead Frontend Engineer with over 11 years of experience building scalable web applications and leading frontend architecture initiatives. I specialize in React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and modern frontend tooling, with a strong focus on improving performance, developer velocity, and accessibility. Throughout my career, I have successfully driven complex system rewrites and modernization efforts by securing stakeholder buy-in and aligning cross-functional teams.
I thrive as a trusted technical leader and mentor, fostering collaboration and growth within engineering teams. My expertise spans frontend and backend technologies, architecture design, developer productivity, testing, and CI/CD pipelines. I am passionate about delivering high-quality, accessible, and performant user experiences.
In my current role as Engineering Lead & Product Owner at ph27, I architect product and technical strategy for innovative applications, leveraging generative AI to accelerate solo execution and managing DevOps and hosting environments. I have also contributed as a Senior Software Engineer on contract and led frontend engineering teams to transition monolithic systems to modular architectures, achieving significant performance gains.
I am committed to continuous learning and sharing knowledge, currently teaching software engineering principles as an adjunct instructor. I enjoy mentoring engineers and helping students prepare for careers in tech through resume refinement and interview coaching.
My approach combines technical excellence with strategic vision, enabling teams to deliver impactful products aligned with business goals. I am excited to continue driving innovation and leadership in frontend engineering and systems architecture.
Skills
JavaScriptReactTypeScriptGitAgileHTMLCSSFigmaScrumMongoDBRedisNoSQLReduxCypressExpress
Experience
Sole architect of product and technical strategy for a zero-to-one MVP, defining vision, roadmap, system architecture, and feature prioritization while personally executing across every layer of the stack. Designed and implemented full-stack architecture using React, GraphQL, Styled Components, Jotai, Wouter, Fastify, Mercurius, Neo4j, and Valkey. Developed tiered recommendation engine and reminder system with dynamic scheduling and push notifications. Used generative AI to cover design iteration, marketing, legal, and business strategy. Established affiliate monetization and managed DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, environment configuration, and hosting.
Delivered React-based features with Tailwind and TypeScript, resolved high-priority blockers, expanded automated test coverage using Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress, and hardened GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to increase deployment stability.
Led transition from monolithic to modular frontend architecture, achieving 30% performance gains and reducing time-to-interactive from 20 to 2 minutes. Enhanced CI/CD pipelines, mentored engineers, scaled engineering org, and broke down silos between teams to secure engineering a seat at the technical roadmap table.
Led modernization of legacy frontend system to modular React architecture, reducing production incidents and accelerating feature delivery. Partnered with backend team to redesign data delivery, reducing time-to-interactive by 67%. Led greenfield Shopify app product initiative and grew engineering team by hiring and onboarding remote developers. Championed accessibility and performance best practices.
Teach core engineering principles through real-world projects, mentor students, and support resume refinement and interview preparation.
Consulted on modern web practices including accessibility and performance optimization. Refactored legacy code and built internal documentation.
Key contributor to factory automation IDE, streamlining programming and real-time monitoring of robotics.
Led development of performant, cross-device UI components for OTT streaming experiences.
Created proof-of-concept voice apps for Alexa and Google Assistant, expanding listener engagement.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
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