Front End Developer

Senior Front End Web Developer

Senior front-end engineer with 15+ years of experience specializing in React.js, TypeScript, and Next.js. Proven ability to build scalable, performant web applications reaching millions of users. Actively studying AI and prompt engineering, with hands-on projects integrating OpenAI APIs into real-world applications. I’ve led front-end initiatives across SaaS, ecommerce, and B2B platforms - spearheading redesigns, improving performance, and introducing frameworks and testing practices to raise engineering standards. Equally comfortable collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring devs, or shipping code hands-on. Currently based in Portland, ME, and open to relocation.


Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $150,000

Hourly rate: $85

Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States

Residency: 🇺🇸 United States


Experience

Senior Front-End Web Developer
Paytronix
2022 - 2024
- Led the design and implementation of a language management framework enabling internationalization in 7 languages, allowing the SaaS platform to expand into Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and Canada. - Modernized legacy UI by migrating to React.js functional components with Hooks and Context API, improving performance and maintainability across a high-traffic SaaS platform. - Led front-end development of a “Campaign Wizard” tool that streamlined a complex campaign setup into a guided 3-step UI, reducing setup time by 70%, support calls by 10%, & customer frustration. - Revamped and illustrated internal setup guides and technical documentation, reducing new developer onboarding time by over 40% and improving team scalability and knowledge retention. - Presented team sprint summaries at weekly department-wide calls attended by 90+ engineers.
Senior Full-Stack Web Designer
MRG Assessments
2021 - 2022
- Led the full redesign of MRG’s assessment platform, transforming an antiquated ASP.NET system into a modern React.js + Node.js SPA, improving scalability, global accessibility (20+ languages), and user satisfaction. - Defined and executed a 5-phase development roadmap with clear milestones and deliverables, managed Epics and Sprints in Jira, and led the team to launch 3 months ahead of schedule. - Served as Scrum Master for a small, cross-functional team, facilitated agile ceremonies (standups and planning), and regularly reported progress and velocity to 12 executive stakeholders. - Mentored developers and championed React adoption, upskilling the backend team and streamlining frontend collaboration.
Senior Full-Stack Web Developer (contract)
MUNIRevs (acquired by GovOS)
2021 - 2021
Served as a key contributor on the web development team, supporting over 90 municipality websites across the U.S., ensuring reliable and consistent performance across jurisdictions. Played a significant role in the front-end UI overhaul, implementing a modern, responsive Bootstrap framework and collaborating on a beta rollout strategy to ensure user adoption. Developed and implemented custom design and functionality requests to meet the unique needs of diverse municipal clients, balancing user experience with technical constraints. Refactored legacy PHP codebase to align with modern development standards, improving maintainability and scalability of the platform.
Full-Stack Web Developer
Auto Europe
2013 - 2020
- Played a central role in designing and building the third-generation mobile-first ecommerce website serving over 60 multilingual domains, utilizing modern practices including responsiveness, decoupling front and back ends, and leveraging ES6 and SCSS, improving user experience. - Developed and maintained white-label solutions for travel agencies and enterprise partners, building frameworks that allowed for custom branding, bulk account management, and affiliate tracking. - Designed and delivered a React.js frontend + Node.js/SQL backend dashboard to consolidate and analyze error logs, reducing alert fatigue and improving observability for a global ecommerce platform serving millions of users. - Collaborated on innovative side projects such as a voice-based Amazon Alexa skill for car rentals (prototype), Google Tag Manager funnel analysis, and enhancements to Auto Europe's mobile app. - Mentored junior developers and championed best practices in debugging, secure coding, and maintainability in a high-traffic, global web environment.
Web Application Developer
Outside Television (now part of Outside Online)
2010 - 2013
- Built a new company CMS (content management system) website from the ground up in Drupal 7, including custom modules using PHP, jQuery, and SCSS. - Reconstructed the company intranet for over 40 resort town television stations across the US, improving communication and resource sharing.

Skills

ai
backend
css
front-end
full-stack
graphql
lead-designer
nextjs
node
nosql
react
sql
tailwind
typescript
english