Senior frontend engineer specializing in design systems and component architecture - with experience spanning founding-stage startups and enterprise product surfaces at scale.
Skills
StackReact, Next.js, Astro.js, Node.js, Angular, Jest, AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, Robot
ToolsWCAG 2.1, CI/CD, Docker, UI/UX Design, Figma, Jenkins
LanguagesJavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, SQL
Experience
- Founding US frontend engineer at a European MedTech AI startup, reporting directly to the CTO and architecting the company's design system from the ground up.
- Established the full technical architecture for the design system - stack selection, repo setup, and component infrastructure - collaborating directly with the design team to align on requirements from day one.
- Owned frontend architecture and cross-functional delivery for merchant-facing payment features serving ~5,000 businesses and processing ~$83M/month, acting as technical lead across engineering, product, and design.
- Drove full WCAG 2.1 compliance across a high-traffic React application - screen readers, 400% zoom reflow, semantic HTML, keyboard navigation - eliminating legal risk and meeting enterprise accessibility standards.
- Shipped mobile-responsive payment flows used by global merchants across Visa's acquiring network, improving usability and consistency across devices.
- Owned monthly production releases and incident response, executing hotfixes with zero customer impact.
- Built and maintained Visa's company-wide React component library, shipped to millions of users across Visa's global product surface, including full WCAG 2.1 accessibility features - mobile reflow, screen reader support, focus management, and high-contrast themes.
- Led a white-label UI infrastructure overhaul enabling fully ADA-compliant brand customization, adopted by major U.S. banks including Wells Fargo and Bank of America.
- Built end-to-end UI and database test automation using Robot Framework and Selenium, eliminating production rollbacks and achieving 100% transaction settlement accuracy across payment networks.
- Designed and built a proof-of-concept platform to help small merchants drive sales during COVID-19 - React frontend consuming a Django REST API (25+ endpoints) with Visa payment integration, shipped to AWS via CI/CD.
- Developed a modular micro-frontend packaging solution in Angular reducing go-to-market time, internal engineering overhead, and accelerating product delivery for new internal tools.
Projects
- Designed and built a responsive Next.js site with SSG, performance optimizations, and CI/CD deployment to AWS S3 + CloudFront.
- Improved load performance by 300% and iterated on UX based on analytics from 47k+ pageviews.
- Architected a Cloudflare-native headless CMS (Workers, D1, R2) with versioned REST API and JWT Auth.
- Built a dedicated Next.js editor and automated deployment tooling for rapid self-hosted setup.
- Designed and developed a mobile-optimized Next.js site on AWS with automated serverless lead capture.
Education
Bachelor's in Computer Science - University of Texas at Austin
Minor in Studio Art
May 2021