Front End Engineering Lead

Front-end architecture | AI product development | Technical leadership

Profile

Front-end engineering leader with more than a decade of experience building greenfield applications, maintaining and modernizing legacy systems, and guiding architecture decisions. Builds front ends and backends-for-frontends (BFFs) for AI products, creates AI workflows for local development and CI/CD, and enables teams to use AI efficiently. Leads and mentors developers, translating product and leadership priorities into specific, measurable engineering goals and concise, actionable tasks.

Core strengths

  • Front-end architecture: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS; component libraries, Vite, Webpack, Storybook, Tailwind CSS; state, build, and deployment tradeoffs; legacy migration; accessibility and performance.
  • Technical leadership: Architecture tradeoffs, cross-team collaboration, mentoring, code reviews, story refinement, and SMART engineering goals.
  • Applied AI: AI product interfaces and BFFs; local development and CI/CD workflows; agent evaluation, guardrails, and efficient team adoption.
  • Supporting backend and delivery: Lightweight Node.js/Express services, API design with backend teams, GraphQL integration, and targeted configuration and migration work.

Experience

DXC Technology

Front End Developer Lead | Jun 2025 – Present

  • Lead front-end architecture for a flagship React/TypeScript AI platform supporting persona sessions, concurrent chats, background agents, long-running workflows, and OAuth 2.0.
  • Develop AI product front ends and BFFs; architect real-time reconciliation of GraphQL results and API contracts, and integrate asynchronous messaging streams.
  • Build a configurable component library that lets AI agents and CMS editors assemble interfaces, including in-chat tables and charts.
  • Lead internal engineers and contractors, mentor junior developers, allocate work, and guide engineering standards and reviews; partner with design on prototypes and accessibility.
  • Establish a recurring evaluation and remediation process for secure, accessible UIs, reducing time to resolve findings by 80%.
  • Build AI workflows for local development and CI/CD, including debugging, analysis, reviews, and automated PRs; expand review coverage from 0% to 100%.
  • Cut average PR cycle time from 24 to 2.5 hours and pipeline recovery effort from 8 hours to 30 minutes through improved tooling and workflows.
  • Enable effective team use of AI through shared debugging tools, agent training and evaluation, budget optimization, and repository guardrails; reduce low-value AI advice by 60% and repetitive review threads by 90%.

Teamworks

Senior Software Engineer | Jul 2024 – Feb 2025

Klarna

Senior Engineer | Mar 2022 – Jun 2024

Joined FlexEngage shortly before its acquisition by Klarna.

  • Built React and TypeScript applications and libraries; initiated an information architecture program for analysis and planning.
  • Helped establish cross-team code reviews, tested interfaces with Jest and React testing tools, and used generative AI to compose components and configurations.
  • Improved front-end CI/CD builds and configured projects, workspaces, and a monorepo; made targeted Terraform and Bitbucket Pipelines configuration changes.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Sr. Web Developer | Jun 2019 – Mar 2022

  • Built greenfield pricing and payments applications with React, TypeScript, and GraphQL, with supporting Node.js and Express development.
  • Guided junior developers, led story refinement, tested applications with Jest and React testing tools, and wrote user and developer documentation.
  • Configured front-end builds within Spring Boot applications and project workspaces using AWS and Bitbucket Pipelines; delivered applications in Docker and AWS EC2 environments.

Rooms To Go

Sr. JavaScript Developer | Jun 2018 – Jun 2019

  • Architected, implemented, and tested user interfaces and API integrations; translated designs and user flows into working experiences.
  • Maintained and refactored legacy technology; evaluated new technologies and reported their potential business impact.

Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Technology

Web Developer | Jul 2016 – Jun 2018

  • Built UI and analytics features with JavaScript, jQuery, and AngularJS; developed A/B/n tests and implemented lasting improvements based on analytics.
  • Addressed accessibility, localization, performance, and compatibility across browsers and devices in large projects with many stakeholders.

Self-employed

Web Developer | Oct 2012 – Jul 2016

  • Built web interfaces with jQuery, Angular, and Backbone, with supporting Node.js/Express and PHP development.
  • Worked across front-end build tools including Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Babel, and Browserify, as well as CSS frameworks and templating systems.

Vericle

Front-End Web Developer | EHR Director | Jan 2014 – Apr 2015

  • Built healthcare documentation applications, custom data-entry tools, and user-defined forms with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and jQuery.
  • Partnered with clinicians, designers, developers, and database administrators to improve EHR workflows and support practice operations.

Education

  • Stetson University College of Law: Doctor of Law (JD), 2009 – 2011
  • Rollins College: B.A., International Affairs, 2006 – 2009