Summary
Design engineer and frontend developer with a formal design background and 7+ years of experience building production web applications, design systems, and brand identities. I work where code, design, and messaging meet, distilling cross-disciplinary complexity into clarity. Specialized in React, SvelteKit, TypeScript, and modern CSS, with a strong focus on accessibility, animation, performance, and craft.
Experience
- Designed and implemented a full-scale redesign of Deno.com, including a full rebrand, illustration, and animation work. This redesign correlated with the Deno 2.0, launch and helped to achieve a permanent 200% increase in web traffic and Deno monthly active users
- Led design and launch of Claw Patrol, an open-source firewall for AI agents, including brand identity, dashboard UI, landing page, and launch marketing
- Complete redesign of Deno Deploy, including full rebrand with app and marketing rebuild
- Built new product features and refined existing features in Deno Deploy
- Led development and design across Deno sites and products, including JSR and javascript.tm
- Updated and maintained Deno documentation
- Led a comprehensive redesign and rebuild of all marketing pages for Shopify point of sale and retail products in over 30 locales, resulting in an 18% increase in customer conversion
- Developed marketing landing pages for major initiatives including Shopify’s enterprise offering, Commerce Components, collaborating with designers and stakeholders on animation, technical tradeoffs, and tight deadlines
- Assisted in conversion of marketing pages from Rails ERB templates to server-rendered React, increasing conversions by up to 5%
- Built universal components using React, TypeScript, and Tailwind; collaborated with designers on customization options enabling bespoke implementations per landing page
- Led multiple marketing internationalization projects
- Administered code exercise interviews and feedback for prospective applicants
- Mentored junior engineers on front-end best practices; created and delivered training on web accessibility covering assistive technologies, semantic HTML, ARIA, and WCAG
- Built new financial reporting features giving admin portal users customizable insights into org. finances and transactions
- Built out design system in Storybook and implemented new components in Vue, ensuring consistent UI and tight coupling with the backend Laravel application
- Built products used by Flywheel customers and support, including an in-app communications center and a batch edit feature saving an estimated 45–90 seconds per site
- Rebuilt Flywheel’s site migration form and engineered the UI for a migration WordPress plugin, reducing the CS burden of migrations by 35–40%
- Spearheaded an accessibility audit and overhaul of legacy Rails and Vue components, bringing iconography, links, buttons, and focus styles up to compliance standards
- Volunteered to build four company microsites, including for the Rise ERG and two all-company retreat sites (2020, 2019)
- Led the US Tier 2 support team; developed tools and training resources including in-depth sessions on SSL, DNS, NGINX, and platform architecture
- Built a Chrome extension adding productivity features to Flywheel’s admin panel, saving agents an estimated 15–20 minutes per day; still in use by all support agents
- Developed and taught a “WordPress 101” course to all new hires
- Solely responsible for curriculum development and teaching WordPress theme development to classes of 4–12 students, covering PHP, MySQL, web performance, and accessibility fundamentals
- Brand design and implementation across print and web, for clients including Nebraska Spine + Pain Center and The Alter Group
Side Projects
- Independently designed and shipped two original word puzzle games — Quina (Nuxt/Vue) and Hondo (SvelteKit) — to iOS, Android, and the web as PWAs
- Implemented game logic, daily puzzle modes, achievement systems, and streak-based scoring; handled full product lifecycle from concept through App Store submission
- Published a technical writeup on CSS Tricks covering the build process and lessons learned shipping to Google Play
Selected Design Work
- Redesigned the Deno logo and brand for the Deno 2.0 launch (2024); led and implemented the comprehensive rebrand of Deno Deploy; complete brand and appearance for JSR
- Illustration work across Deno.com pages and properties, including animated/interactive hero graphics
- Original brand, UI/UX, and game design for Quina and Hondo
- Led design for various microsites and efforts such as javascript.tm and miscellaneous internal microsites
Writing & Speaking
- Articles published for CSS Tricks, LogRocket Blog, and The Layout.
- Podcast guest on ShopTalk Show, JS Party, Whiskey Web and Whatnot, and others. Speaker at multiple WordCamps and BarCamp Omaha.
Relevant Skills
- Specialized in Svelte/SvelteKit, React/Preact, TypeScript, CSS/Sass, design systems, accessibility, web animation, SVG, and performance optimization.
- Also experienced with Vue, Tailwind, Deno, Fresh, Node, Knockout, jQuery, JS testing (Vitest, Karma, Mocha, Chai, framework utility libraries), PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Docker, AWS, RegEx, NGINX, (Varnish) caching, Redux, Storybook, WordPress, SVG, git/GitHub, npm, Jira, CLIs, DNS.
Education
Metropolitan Community College
Omaha, Nebraska
August 2012 – November 2014
- Associate’s of Graphic Communication Art and Design (3.95 GPA)