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Work Experience

Professional milestones, engineering leadership, and architectural achievements.

  • Frontend Leadership (ProcessOut): Led frontend development for a high-scale global payment optimization platform (acquired by Checkout.com), ensuring high availability and zero-downtime deployments.
  • Scalable Design System: Developed and maintained the corporate Design System. Automated icon/logo pipelines, introduced design tokens, and built thoroughly documented component libraries to improve UI consistency and developer velocity.
  • Architecture & Multi-Tenancy: Led the structural redesign from a single-project model to a multi-tenant hierarchy (Organizations), enabling complex enterprise access management.
  • Security, Tech Stack & AI: Owned the full project lifecycle, including framework migrations and proactive vulnerability patching. Improved developer experience (DevEx) by integrating AI-assisted tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code.
  • Technical Governance: Active member of the internal Architecture Council, shaping global frontend strategy. Conducted technical interviews for Lead Frontend roles and established On-Call incident response workflows.
  • CI/CD Optimization: Upgraded automated deployment pipelines, significantly cutting down build times and streamlining release processes.
  • Cloud & DevOps Diagnostics: Autonomously worked across the broader company ecosystem using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes to trace issues, diagnose deployment bottlenecks, and ensure smooth service integration.

Core Expertise

Next.js React TypeScript Frontend Architecture Design Systems CI/CD AWS Docker Kubernetes AI Tools (Cursor/Copilot) Security Auditing Multi-tenancy
  • International FinTech & Real Estate: Co-created a high-end web platform for Ziegert Group, displaying premium real estate listings with a strong focus on seamless UX and robust data presentation.
  • Layout Standardization: Designed and implemented a highly flexible, responsive grid component system, migrating all legacy views to unified layouts, eliminating layout tech debt across mobile and desktop.
  • Custom Multimedia Engineering: Built a high-performance, full-screen interactive landing page featuring ambient background videos with custom playback controls using pure HTML5 APIs to maximize engagement without heavy external libraries.
  • Team Growth & Mentorship: Conducted technical onboarding and mentorship for incoming Frontend Developers, accelerating their time-to-productivity.
  • Data-Driven UI: Integrated complex React state management with GraphQL queries for fast, typed data fetching.

Core Expertise

React TypeScript GraphQL Frontend Architecture Responsive Web Design HTML5 Video API Mentoring
  • Global Client Engineering: Delivered high-quality frontend and mobile applications exclusively for international clients in fully remote, cross-functional agile teams.
  • Web Accessibility (a11y) Excellence: Architected and built a comprehensive Text-to-Speech solution from scratch for a major TV streaming app in the US market, ensuring strict accessibility compliance for visually impaired users.
  • Real-Time Hardware Dashboard: Developed a real-time monitoring dashboard for ARRI (Academy Award-winning cinema equipment manufacturer), utilizing WebSockets to track and control network devices instantaneously.
  • Mobile App Feature Delivery: Contributed to an internal charity mobile application using React Native, owning the implementation of cross-platform Push Notifications via Expo API and polishing UI interactions.

Core Expertise

React React Native TypeScript Web Accessibility (a11y) WebSockets Expo API Frontend Architecture
  • E-commerce at Scale: Developed and optimized massive, high-traffic monolithic e-commerce platforms (including Euro RTV AGD and Leroy Merlin) built on Java Server Pages (JSP).
  • Performance-Driven Redesign: Co-authored a complete, from-scratch redesign of product cards and listings. Engineered a proprietary, ultra-lightweight custom select component ('select-3') to maximize Google Web Vitals and SEO rankings.
  • Cross-Browser Craftsmanship: Maintained extreme cross-device and cross-browser compatibility, ensuring robust layouts down to Internet Explorer 7/8 without relying on heavy external dependencies.
  • Autonomy & Ownership: Promoted to Mid Developer; frequently acted as the sole frontend engineer on sub-teams, handling technical analysis, project estimation, direct client communication, and acting as frontend on-call engineer.
  • Omnichannel & Mobile Shift: Delivered standalone mobile web variations for major stores and later transitioned to Mobile Development, building MVP features for Leroy Merlin's React Native application.
  • Legacy Maintenance: Managed core features and hotfixes for international clients using legacy setups (AngularJS).

Core Expertise

React React Native TypeScript JavaScript AngularJS jQuery SASS/SCSS E-commerce Performance Optimization Cross-Browser Compatibility
  • Career Launchpad: Started as an intern and quickly promoted to a full-time engineer, translating complex Photoshop (PSD) designs into clean, semantic HTML/CSS/JavaScript code.
  • Responsive Web Transition: Retrofitted existing legacy desktop websites to be fully responsive and optimized across all mobile devices during the early adoption phase of modern frontend frameworks.
  • Client-Facing Adaptability: Directly handled client feedback, iteratively implementing adjustments and hotfixes in close cooperation with multi-CMS environments (PHP-based frameworks).
  • Animation & Motion Design: Conceptualized, designed, and coded interactive Flash/JS promotional animations for large-scale digital signage displays in shopping malls, collaborating directly with corporate marketing departments and mastering motion design.

Core Expertise

JavaScript CSS3 HTML5 Responsive Web Design jQuery Photoshop (PSD to HTML) Motion Design Flash