Design-minded frontend engineer and technical lead specializing in design systems, UI architecture, and agentic development - building team-multiplying foundations, processes, and teams at founding-stage startups and global enterprises.
Skills
FrontendReact, Next.js, Astro.js, Node.js, Radix UI, WCAG 2.1
Design & ToolingFigma, Storybook, Playwright, Claude Code
InfrastructureAWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, Docker, CI/CD
LanguagesTypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, SQL
Experience
- Founding US frontend engineer; architected the company's design system and frontend foundation from scratch - growing it from zero to 70+ components in 6 months and making it the default for all new product development.
- Acting as technical lead for US engineering projects - overseeing delivery across 3 projects, coaching and unblocking engineers, and redesigning refinement and design-to-development handoff processes.
- Designed the frontend for agentic development with AI-readable documentation (CLAUDE.md, llms.txt), agent rules, PR guardrails, automated release processes, and Figma-to-code audits - enabling engineers and agents to rapidly ship consistent UI.
- Established the company's first engineering interview process - rubrics, assessments, and evaluation frameworks - and conducted 15 interviews, hiring 3 engineers, and onboarded them alongside the incoming engineering manager.
- Unblocked engineering teams by building a long-needed CI/CD pipeline tailored to the team's release workflow, and surfaced core product risks around concurrent-user scenarios.
- Built and maintained Visa's company-wide React component library, shipped to millions of users across Visa's global products.
- 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.
- 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.
- Developed a modular micro-frontend packaging solution in Angular, reducing go-to-market time and engineering overhead while accelerating product delivery for internal tools.
Projects
- Designed and built a responsive Next.js site with SSG, performance optimizations, and CI/CD deployment to CloudFront.
- Reduced load time by 75% 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 built a mobile-optimized Next.js site with serverless lead capture, CMS self-editing, and a blog running on pebble.
Education
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor's in Computer Science · Minor in Studio Art
May 2021