Bellingham, WA

Rob Abby

Senior Frontend Product Engineer

15 years shipping consumer and B2B web products — React and TypeScript since 2018.

Previously: PartySlate · project44 · SAVO

Current Work

Senior Frontend Engineer (Independent) · Rob Abby LLC · Nov 2025 – Present

WavePoint
Solo-built and live in production: an astrology platform computing birth charts, astrocartography, and transits from live astronomical positions. A 58-module TypeScript computation engine covered by 1,300+ unit tests, behind a Next.js 16 App Router app with partial prerendering, roughly a thousand programmatically generated pages, Supabase auth, and Stripe subscriptions.
Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · Supabase · Stripe
Live site

VIMSIA
Technology Strategist & IT Manager · Mar 2025 – Nov 2025
Led technology strategy and AI integration for a PK-12 school; reduced support requests 20% through training and systems improvements.
PartySlate
Staff Engineer · Dec 2018 – Feb 2024
Senior-most frontend engineer through growth from a 12-person startup to a 50+ employee Series-B company. Led the rewrite of Find Venues — the platform's highest-traffic page — driving a 150% increase in venue inquiries, and built the 25-module component library that cut feature rollout cycles 40% across teams.
project44
Senior UX Engineer · Jun 2018 – Dec 2018
Built map-based logistics interfaces in a React/Redux codebase; established a living style guide and UI component library.
SAVO
Senior UI/UX & Product Developer · Apr 2013 – Jun 2018
Led the spinout of an autonomous UI/UX team and a living design system informed by 50+ user research sessions; founded the org-wide Front-End Guild.
Web2Carz
Web Developer · Nov 2011 – Mar 2013
Built consumer-facing galleries, forms, and a standalone mobile web app; introduced git and a formal deployment process.