Background
About
I build the systems and teams that build the product — design infrastructure, component architecture, and engineering culture that compound over time.My path started as the first developer at a car marketplace, writing jQuery and learning to ship fast with founders breathing down my neck. At Savo, I spun out an autonomous UX team, ran 50+ research sessions, and built the company's first living design system in Ember. At project44, I brought that same systems thinking to React. Then at PartySlate, I joined a 12-person startup and stayed through Series B — scaling the frontend team, building a 25+ component library, and helping grow the platform to 200k+ monthly users.The thread through all of it: I care about the layer beneath the feature. Design systems that make the next hundred features easier to ship. Accessibility scores that climb because compliance is baked into the component library, not patched in before launch. Performance budgets that hold because the architecture respects them from the start. I've worked across Ember, React, Vue, and jQuery — the framework matters less than the engineering discipline behind it.I'm drawn to teams where frontend engineering is treated as a craft — where the work is as much about mentoring the next senior engineer as shipping the next release.
Systems over featuresBuild the infrastructure that makes the next 100 features easier to ship.
Accessibility as architectureWCAG compliance baked into the design system, not bolted on after.
Ship with evidenceMeasure, iterate, measure again. Every UI decision should have a feedback loop.
Expertise
Skills
Type-SafeTypeScript
ComponentReact
Full-StackNext.js
SystematicDesign Systems
Languages & Frameworks
TypeScriptReactNext.js
JavaScriptVue.jsNode.jsHTML5CSS3SassTailwindGraphQLREST APIsReact QueryApollo ClientStorybookReact Testing LibraryWebpackViteES6+BabelSWCJestEnzymeCypress
Leadership
MentorshipCross-functional Collaboration
CoachingPair ProgrammingAgile MethodologiesTeam BuildingUser-Centered DesignDesign ThinkingKnowledge SharingTechnical Writing
Platforms & Tools
AWSDockerLiving Design Systems
ECRECSS3CloudWatchRoute 53FigmaGit & GithubCI/CDVS CodeClaude CodeChrome DevToolsPostmanJiraConfluenceSlackZoom
CareerVIMSIAContract role during international relocation. Led modernization of internal tech infrastructure and web tools at an international Montessori/IB school.PartySlateSupported growth at PartySlate, a dual-sided marketplace platform, from a 12-person early-stage startup to a +50-employee Series-B company while averaging 258.33% revenue growth year-over-year.project44project44 (B2B) is the leading Decision Intelligence Platform for supply chains, powered by the world's largest transportation data network.SavoSAVO (B2B) was an industry leader in the sales enablement space, providing SaaS software used by some of the largest companies in the world (Disney, American Express, Google, UPS, etc.). I worked within Agile and Lean UX methodologies taking projects from discovery to implementation.Web2CarzWeb2Carz (B2C) is a used car marketplace and editorial platform. I was hired as the first developer and worked directly with the founders to implement a major redesign of the Web2Carz aging site, implement a new editorial segment, and develop an adaptive mobile solution.
Experience
IT Manager
2025 - 2025Staff Frontend Engineer
2018 - 2024- Spearheaded 10+ large-scale features used by 200k+ users monthly in a React & NextJS frontend and Ruby on Rails backend from requirements phase through agile development and cross-functional definition process, resulting in a 25% increase in user engagement year-over-year.
- Led the rewrite of Find Venues Page, the most impactful page on the website, to provide an interactive Map-view and redesigned search results, leading to a 150% increase in Venue inquiries.
- Mentored fellow engineers via code-reviews, pair programming and lunch-and-learns fostering a positive work environment.
- Optimized code quality across teams by adopting TypeScript and integrating ESLint and Prettier into CI pipelines, reducing code review defects by 40% and ensuring consistent React/GraphQL standards.
- Expanded UI Components library by developing 25+ reusable modules using TypeScript, React, and Chakra UI with integrated web accessibility testing and visual regression in Storybook, streamlining cross-team collaboration and reducing feature rollout cycle by 40% over a 12-month period.
- Improved site-wide Lighthouse accessibility score from 78 to 95 and performance score to 90+ by implementing lazy loading, code splitting, and WCAG 2.1 AA compliance standards, reducing initial bundle size by 40% and average page load time by 2.3 seconds improving engagement on high-traffic marketplace pages.
Senior UX Engineer
2018 - 2018Senior Product Developer
2013 - 2018Web Developer
2011 - 2013Impact
Case Studies
2018–2024 · PartySlateRewriting PartySlate’s Most Impactful PageA ground-up rewrite of PartySlate’s highest-traffic page — redesigned search, interactive map view, and a modernized React/GraphQL architecture that drove a 150% increase in venue inquiries.Read case study
150%Increase in venue inquiries
78 → 95Lighthouse accessibility score
-40%Bundle size reduction
2013–2018 · SavoBuilding a UX Practice from ScratchLed the creation of Savo’s first dedicated UX practice — from spinning out an autonomous team to running 50+ research sessions and building a living design system that unified product development across Salesforce integrations.Read case study
50+User research sessions
30%Increase in user satisfaction
20%Developer productivity improvement
Builds
Projects
Platform
A cross-platform product shipping a Next.js web app and 6 native Apple apps from a single monorepo. Shared TypeScript content packages bridge web and native, a Swift astronomy engine powers real-time celestial calculations, and Supabase auth, Stripe payments, and Brevo CRM are coordinated across all platforms.WavePoint
Next.jsReactTypeScriptSupabaseStripeBrevoSwiftSwiftUI
Developer Tool
A cross-session memory and workflow system for Claude Code built on the MCP protocol. Six composable skills — hydrate, remember, recall, reflect, glean, and pickup — manage persistent state across conversations using Obsidian as the storage layer.Claude Skills
Claude CodeObsidianMCPTypeScript
Portfolio
robabby.com
A Next.js 15 + React 19 portfolio featuring code-generated SVG architecture diagrams, WCAG AA compliance, static generation with dynamic routes, motion/react animations with reduced-motion support, and an integrated AI art gallery with lightbox navigation.
Next.jsReact 19TypeScriptRadix UImotion/reactVercel
Bot
tldr-bot
An early exploration of AI-powered developer tools — a Discord bot that uses OpenAI’s API to generate sarcastic summaries of channel history and auto-generate memes from message context.
PythonDiscord.pyOpenAI GPT-5 API