At Confluent, I played a crucial role in the UI Foundations team, creating standards and best practices for front-end engineers on our event streaming cloud platform. I led the development and maintenance of our design system, focusing on accessibility and developer experience.🔹 Slashed Jenkins build time by 15 minutes using parallelization of Jest unit tests🔹 Resolved 800+ accessibility violations with Confluent Cloud product working with auditor Deque and implementing guidelines for contrast accessibility checks and adding automated regression testing using Playwright and Jest🔹 Coached developers on accessible web development through pair programming, component peer reviews, and documenting accessible development best practices in Storybook🔹 Implemented a Contentful to Storybook integration for designers to directly contribute to the design system documentation without requiring access to the code base.🔹 Developed a TypeScript & React.js design system using Vanilla Extract, ensuring type-safety for design token usage and created monorepo tooling for easy contributions and creation of new components.🔹 Created a CLI tool for running ESLint on only changed files or target specific git branches and compare changed files.🔹 Introduced Playwright end-to-end testing and defined migration path from DataDog monitoring for regular offline testing. Created examples for mocking large clients so teams could easily begin migration from DataDog.

As an early-hire engineer at GoodLeap, I played a pivotal role in transforming a green energy lending business into a versatile lending platform, enabling rapid expansion into new markets and customizable loan offerings. In the process, I helped increase the company’s valuation by $11 billion, while leading and mentoring full-stack development teams in design systems, component libraries, and accessibility.🔹 Developed a widely-used design system and component library using React, TypeScript, and Styled Components, empowering 20+ developers to create consistent UI experiences🔹 Streamlined codebase by 75%, migrating 3 legacy applications to a single Next.js app, leveraging design system best practices🔹 Slashed lending product creation time from 4 months to just 2 days via a configuration-based platform.🔹 Developed a configuration-based home improvement installation system using a JSON form generator, enabling seamless addition of new installation types (e.g. HVAC, roofing) to the lending platform without writing any code🔹 Implemented end-to-end testing with Cypress and Testing Library, introducing a DSL for crafting robust tests, facilitating both mocked and real regression testing to ensure consistent performance and quality🔹 Streamlined front-end web application by developing a unified GraphQL API using Node.js, TypeScript, and Apollo Federations, consolidating business logic for seamless integration with both mobile and existing web applications.🔹 Led development of Serverless AWS Lambdas to reduce infrastructure costs by significant margins.🔹 Built an email service and email component library with Storybook integration using React.js, TypeScript, and Node.js, enabling editing and previewing of automated customer emails by legal and security teams while maintaining design system consistency.

As a technical lead at Workgroups DaVinci, I developed a design collaboration tool using React.js and Typescript, enabling customers to provide feedback on images, PDFs, videos, and 3D models through annotations. The tool supported versioning and file comparison with highlighting of file changes.🔹 Rapidly developed design collaboration tool in just one month, launching ahead of major Adobe Max conference.🔹 Collaborated with Adobe engineers to create the first TypeScript plugin for Adobe XD which also was available as an open source template for future plugins.🔹 Built a powerful file conversion tool in one month, supporting 450+ file types, utilizing AWS SQS, and a Node.js consumer to transform video formats, optimize images for deep zoom, and convert Word files to PDF for rendering.🔹 Enhanced design collaboration tool with white-label capabilities using a JSON file for brand settings and UI customization.

At JFerrell Consulting, I delivered custom software solutions for clients in diverse industries, such as dermatological skincare education and voice interface accessibility. My work focused on developing React.js component libraries, creating tailored tools using GraphQL and Node.js, and enhancing user engagement through interactive online demos.🔹 LearnHealth: Dermatological Skincare Education PlatformDeveloped a React.js component library for a medical education platform, fostering reuse, streamlining complexity, and cutting development time by 50%Led the creation of a dermatological skin type tool using GraphQL, Node.js, and React, delivering personalized skincare routines and product recommendations🔹 VoiceTeach: Voice Interface Accessibility CompanyEnhanced user engagement by designing an interactive online demo featuring voice interaction through the website, leveraging RxJS, React, IBM Watson, and web speech recognition technologies

I led a technical transformation at Western Health Advantage by introducing microservice architecture and React.js development to 20 engineers. I also trained staff on Agile and Scrum best practices, facilitating Scrum rituals to ensure project success.🔹 Designed and developed component library in React using Atomic Design. Included automated accessibility testing in Storybook and automated tests using Enzyme.🔹 Trained teams in front-end development and helped teams define coding standards for development and testing including ESLint rules and React best practices.🔹 Designed and developed billing management for mobile application using React Native🔹 Created new authorization micro service for member sign in using HapiJS, Node.js, and JavaScript🔹 Designed and implemented new billing architecture using micro services and Node.js allowing better testing and scaling for billing services.🔹 Developed documentation service that allows developers to view REST API swagger documentation and database information in a React.js portal.🔹 Developed and designed email service using React.js and Node.js that allows email communication through a Hapi.js plugin. Created an email component library using React.js that could be previewed using Storybook.

Develop Wordpress websites for customers. Requires understanding customers' needs and teaching technologies to customers. Handle customer support for users. Regularly communicate to customers on updates and update website based on their needs.Backend Technologies: Wordpress, PHP, Genesis FrameworkFrontend Technologies: Javascript, JQueryMarkup: HTML5, CSS3Customer Software: HelpScout

Work with Office of Sustainability and the ISSE at UTK building an application that will allow professors to share research and projects in sustainability allowing better collaboration and allowing students to access research to professors easier.Backend Technologies: Wordpress, PHPFrontend Technologies: Javascript, JQueryMarkup: HTML5, CSS3

Develop web application that allows TVA to maintain Native American artifacts.Develop ArcMap extensions to help facilitate database migrations for Oracle to Microsoft SQL server.Update Perl web applications to ASP.NET MVC applications for River Operations group.Created Python extensions for ArcMapSupport users for ArcMap DesktopBackend Technologies: Python, C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVCFrontend Technologies: ArcGIS Javascript API, Dojo, JQuery, Javascript, JSONGIS Technologies: ArcMap, ArcPy, ArcObjects, ArcGIS Javascript APIMarkup: HTML5, CSS3Design Technologies: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5

Scrumaster and front-end developer for a project at FedEx that utilized Hadoop technology to map and chart FedEx volume in real-time. Created a front-end user experience using HTML5 that was also responsive. The project won Director's Choice out of all the other 10-week projects, and the project is slated to go into production at FedEx.Backend Technologies: Hadoop, FLUME, HIVE, RESTful, TerradataFrontend Technologies: Javascript, JQuery, JSONMarkup: HTML5, CSS3Design Technologies: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5

Developed website for the Office of Sustainability using Wordpress technolgies. Project involved keeping with the design standards at the University of Tennessee, which meant regular communication with the Office of Communications at the University of Tennessee. Also developed design campaign for Earth Month.Backend Technologies: Wordpress, PHPFrontend Technologies: Javascript, JQueryMarkup: HTML5, CSS3Design Technologies: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5

Built responsive site for local hair salon in Memphis. Met with customer regularly to discuss design and customer needs.Frontend Technologies: Javascript, JQueryMarkup: HTML5, CSS3View site at: http://www.hairobert.com

Developed online magazine in Wordpress using responsive design technologies.Backend Technologies: PHP, WordpressFrontend Technologies: Javascript, JQueryMarkup, HTML5, CSS3View site at: http://www.intransitmag.us