Frontend Architect with 13+ years of experience building and scaling production web applications with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and GraphQL. Frontend-focused but flexible across the stack, with hands-on backend experience in Node.js, Express, and PostgreSQL. Currently define frontend architecture and engineering standards at Momentum Group, operating at a Principal Engineer level, leading technical decisions through ADRs/RFCs and guiding teams on scalability, maintainability, and performance. Track record of leading design systems, migrating legacy codebases (Angular to React, LAMP to MERN) without production incidents, and mentoring junior developers. Previously shipped features for a healthcare platform serving hundreds of thousands of users at Medgate Switzerland.
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- Define frontend architecture and engineering standards to keep the codebase scalable, maintainable, secure, and consistent across teams.
- Drive technical decisions through ADRs and RFCs, ensuring long-term maintainability and alignment between frontend engineering and business priorities.
- Guide and support engineering teams to help them deliver features efficiently within the defined architecture.
- Introduced agentic AI workflows into the development process, increasing unit test coverage and improving overall application performance.
- Run frontend performance audits and deliver actionable solutions to address the findings.
- Led a team of 3 frontend developers building a React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS product for a managed services provider to online entertainment and e-commerce brands.
- Also handled backend development using Node.js, Express, and PostgreSQL as the team's lead.
- Introduced shadcn/ui and spearheaded the migration to it, modernizing the component library.
- Mentored the team and proposed improvements to the development workflow and team processes.
- Introduced AI-assisted development with Claude into the workflow, building custom skills and MCP integrations that sped up delivery.
- Coordinated with product and design to streamline the development process.
- Built and shipped responsive frontend features for a healthcare platform used by hundreds of thousands of patients and providers, using React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
- Worked within an 8-person cross-functional engineering team, delivering releases to production with no major functional or performance regressions.
- Translated UX/UI mockups and wireframes into accessible, production-ready interfaces, partnering closely with designers to keep implementation faithful to spec.
- Collaborated with backend engineers and QA across the full software lifecycle, from planning and design through implementation, testing, and deployment.
- Reviewed pull requests and troubleshot production issues to maintain code quality and reliability in a regulated healthcare environment.
- Built a company-wide design system adopted across 4 teams and 4 products, improving UI consistency and cutting duplicated frontend work.
- Mentored 3 frontend developers, reviewing their code and pairing with them to grow their React and TypeScript skills.
- Shipped on a 2-week release cadence, owning task planning, estimation, and scheduling for the frontend team.
- Reviewed and troubleshot code across products to maintain quality and consistency.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams and management to prioritize and execute the software development lifecycle.
- Led the migration of a multi-page Angular 1.x application to React, including migrating global state management from Redux-Saga to Redux Toolkit.
- Built a reusable component library with styled-components, adopted across the company to speed up new feature development.
- Planned project scope and remotely collaborated with fellow developers to fix issues and ship features that improved the user experience.
- Migrated a LAMP stack serving thousands of users to a MERN stack, introducing React to the company and documenting the new stack for smoother onboarding and maintenance.
- Built a styled-components design system that was widely reused across multiple projects company-wide.
- Owned both frontend and backend development end-to-end, including deployment and maintenance, on remote projects from scoping through delivery.
- Conducted client meetings to gather requirements, design websites, and set project timelines.
- Worked closely with a senior developer, learning project management and full-stack development practices.
- Owned both frontend and backend development, including deployment and maintenance on Linux servers.
Portfolio
A web recreation of the Voltorb Flip puzzle game from Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver, built with Next.js and TypeScript. Implemented the grid-based game logic, scoring, and win/loss states from scratch, with a responsive UI styled in Tailwind CSS.
A real-time cryptocurrency price tracker built with Next.js and TypeScript, using React hooks to poll a public price API and re-render updated market data without a full page refresh.
A Reddit clone built with Next.js for SSR and routing, Chakra UI for styling and interface components, Firebase Authentication with Firestore and Storage for data persistence, and Recoil for state management.