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Available for senior & staff roles - 2026

Frontend Developerwith 12+ Yearsof Experience

Building modern, scalable, and high-performance web experiences. I lead architecture, motion, and performance for product teams shipping to millions of users.

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About

A senior craftsperson focused on the intersection of design, code, and motion.

I work alongside product designers, engineering leaders, and founders to ship interfaces that feel inevitable - fast on the network, fluid on the device, and accessible to everyone.

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Years building for the web

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Projects shipped

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Monthly users served

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Lighthouse perf average

Capabilities

What I bring to the team

A T-shaped frontend specialist - deep on React/Next.js, performance, and motion; broad enough to wire your backend, your design system, and your CI.

  • 01

    Frontend Architecture

    Designing scalable component systems, app-router patterns, and front-end platforms used by cross-functional teams.

    • Next.js 15/16
    • React 19
    • Server Components
    • Edge runtime
    • Monorepos
  • 02

    Performance Engineering

    From bundle budgets to streaming SSR - shipping experiences that score in the top percentile of Core Web Vitals.

    • LCP < 1.2s
    • INP tuning
    • Code splitting
    • Hydration cost analysis
  • 03

    TypeScript at scale

    Type-driven design, strict null safety, generic-first APIs, and DX tooling that keeps large teams shipping safely.

    • Strict mode
    • Type-safe APIs
    • tRPC / Zod
    • Generated types
  • 04

    Design Systems

    Token-driven, accessible UI libraries. Headless primitives, motion conventions, and a11y baked in from day one.

    • Design tokens
    • Radix / shadcn
    • Framer Motion
    • WCAG 2.2 AA
  • 05

    Motion & Interaction

    Premium animations that feel inevitable - scroll-tied parallax, magnetic UI, and tasteful micro-interactions.

    • Framer Motion
    • GSAP
    • Lenis
    • Canvas/WebGL
  • 06

    Backend Integration

    Frontend specialist who speaks Node, AWS, and PHP - comfortable wiring full pipelines end-to-end.

    • Node.js
    • AWS Lambda
    • Laravel
    • WordPress / Headless
Selected work

Recent projects that moved metrics.

A small selection - most engagements are under NDA.
Open to walking through case studies on a call.

  • 012025

    SaaS · Dashboards

    Aurora Analytics

    Real-time analytics dashboard for fintech ops. Streaming SSR + virtualized tables handling 500k row sets at 60fps.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • tRPC
    • WebSockets
  • 022024

    E-commerce · Headless

    Helios Commerce

    Edge-rendered storefront. Cut LCP from 3.4s to 0.9s and lifted conversion by 23% during a Black Friday rollout.

    • Next.js Edge
    • Shopify Hydrogen
    • Tailwind
  • 032024

    Design tool · Canvas

    Lumen Studio

    Collaborative design canvas. Built the multiplayer cursor layer and a custom scene graph rendering 10k+ nodes.

    • React
    • Canvas
    • Yjs
    • Rust/WASM
  • 042023

    Healthtech · Platform

    Northwind Health

    Patient-facing platform with strict a11y. WCAG 2.2 AA, screen-reader audited, full keyboard journeys.

    • Next.js
    • Radix
    • AWS
    • HIPAA
  • 052023

    Developer tools

    Cascade Docs

    Docs platform with MDX, live playgrounds, and instant search. Used by 12k+ developers monthly.

    • Next.js
    • MDX
    • Algolia
    • Sandpack
Performance engineering

Core Web Vitals, measured and defended.

Performance isn't a final pass - it's an architectural choice. These are real numbers from the most recent shipped project, on a mid-tier mobile network.

  • LCPExcellent

    Largest Contentful Paint

    0.00s

    64% headroom under budget

    Hero painted before the eye settles.

  • FCPExcellent

    First Contentful Paint

    0.00s

    67% headroom under budget

    Streaming SSR ships above-the-fold first.

  • INPExcellent

    Interaction to Next Paint

    0ms

    58% headroom under budget

    Hands-off main thread, surgical hydration.

  • CLSExcellent

    Cumulative Layout Shift

    0.00

    80% headroom under budget

    Reserved space everywhere; zero layout pops.

  • TBTExcellent

    Total Blocking Time

    0ms

    80% headroom under budget

    Heavy work shipped to workers and the edge.

  • TTFBExcellent

    Time to First Byte

    0ms

    86% headroom under budget

    Edge runtime, smart caching, no cold paths.

How I get there

Streaming SSR with selective hydration; image budgets enforced in CI; a single render-blocking critical CSS; route-level RUM that pages on regression. Performance is observable, not aspirational.

    PartyTown for 3rd-partyEdge runtimeGranular RSC payloadsCritical CSS inliningSelf-hosted fonts
Bundle−54%
LCP−1.4s
INP−180ms
Conv.+23%
Cost−38%
Bounce−12%
Experience

A path shaped by product and platform

Twelve years in - most of it senior or staff. Below: the role, the work, and the outcomes.

  1. Principal Frontend Engineer

    2022 - Present

    Vertex Labs · Remote

    • Founded the design-systems guild; shipped a token-driven UI library used across 14 product teams.
    • Led a streaming-SSR migration that cut TTFB by 62% and raised conversion 18%.
    • Mentor four senior engineers; review architecture for all customer-facing surfaces.

  2. Staff Frontend Engineer

    2019 - 2022

    Helios Group · London, UK

    • Owned the rebuild of the flagship commerce platform on Next.js.
    • Authored the performance playbook adopted org-wide.
    • Drove WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across the storefront and checkout.

  3. Senior Frontend Engineer

    2016 - 2019

    Northwind Studio · Berlin, DE

    • Built five award-winning marketing sites; Awwwards SOTD x2.
    • Established the agency's animation conventions using GSAP and ScrollTrigger.

  4. Frontend Developer

    2013 - 2016

    Indie / Contract · Remote

    • Shipped WordPress and Laravel sites for 30+ small businesses.
    • Cut my teeth on jQuery → Backbone → Angular → React.
Testimonials

Words from people I've shipped with

“Alex is the rare frontend engineer who is equally fluent in design, type systems, and runtime performance. He raised our team's bar by an order of magnitude.”
PR

Priya Raman

VP Engineering, Vertex Labs

Contact

Have a problem worth solving well?

I take on a small number of engagements each year - frontend leadership, performance audits, design-system builds, or in-depth team mentorship.

Based
Remote - UTC+0
Currently
Booking Q3 - open to fractional CTO, staff IC, or 6-week sprints.

I reply within two business days.