Experience
Founding Design Engineer @ External Secrets (OCV)
1Y | 09/2024 - Present- Led External Secretsā Front-End architecture from scratch, establishing day-one UX/Front-End standards and shipping a lead-generation MVP in 4 weeks
- Led Front-End/UI for location-aware reused-secrets findings, enabling one-click bulk rotation across systems and stores, modeled to cut reused-secrets discovery/rotation time by 99.99%
- Built universal K8s recursive form system for 12+ resource types, 15+ field types, cutting custom form development by 80%, enabling users to create complex manifests without YAML knowledge
- Owned the secrets-lifecycle audit experience, designing and shipping an enterprise dashboard with analytics, automated reporting, and secret-lifecycle visualization for 30+ vault providers
- Enhanced DevX with Storybook core primitives coverage, an in-house feature flag system, and a mock API infrastructure, accelerating prototyping and shortening PR review cycles
React, Vite, TypeScript, Zod, Tanstack Query, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Storybook ā Figma, Miro
Founding Design Engineer @ Zazos (Y Combinator S21)
1Y3M | 03/2023 - 06/2024- ā Managed and developed the companyās Design System from scratch, creating 20 tailored components for optimal DevX/UX with Vue + StoryBook, cutting 70% of legacy UI lib code
- ā Led the platform-wide UI redesign and its Front-End refactoring, enhancing user-facing and back-office screens with consistency in UI and copy, with overwhelming client satisfaction
- ā Led the Front-End refactoring and UX overhaul for the Workflow Automations of the platformās Low-Code segment, utilizing a new node-based UI pattern, resulting in 53% increased usage
- ā Led the UI/UX redesign and Front-End refactoring for the Low-code page components settings by using a detailed sidebar for a consistent experience, reducing usage friction by 65%
- ā Led the refactoring of a visual JSON Editor for API integration within Workflow Automations
Vue, Nuxt, Vuex, StoryBook, Jest, Cypress, SCSS, Rails ā Figma, Whimsical
Front-End Developer & UI/UX Designer @ Buser (Softbank)
1Y4M | 08/2021 - 12/2022- Led the Product Discovery and Front-End Development of a dynamic blog-like feature, yielding 60k SEO-optimized pages that elevated organic traffic from 500k to 2.5M within 10 months
- Developed the Front-End for the redesigned UX of our checkout page, making it into a single-page flow without a sign-up requirement, resulting in a 16% increase in conversion rate
- Optimized dozens of Design System Vue components with in-depth documentation, accessibility, unit testing, with 30% build size shrinking by cleaning up large JS dependencies
- Promoted best practices for scalable CSS across the organization, offering guidance and mentoring for all things related to styling
Vue, Nuxt, Vuex, VuePress, Jest, SCSS, django ā Figma, Miro
Contract Front-End Developer @ BxBlue (Y Combinator S17)
4M | 09/2020 - 01/2021- Led the design and implemented the UX for a WebRTC video-contract feature, lowering e-signature costs by allowing users to articulate contract terms displayed on-screen verbally
React, Styled Components, Jest, Enzyme, SCSS, Rails ā Figma
Front-End Developer @ Olist (SoftBank)
3M | 12/2019 - 03/2020Front-End Developer & UI/UX Designer @ LABHacker
3Y8M | 03/2016 - 11/2019- Led the Product Discovery, Design Sprint, UI Design and Front-End development of a tool for citizen input on law drafts with consensus datavis + text editor for lawmakers in 7 months
- Developed the Front-End for a public hearings pilot tool with crowd-ranking questions, having 55% adoption by the House of Representatives within 1 year, and institutionalized by 2024
Javascript, jQuery, SCSS, RSCSS, BEM, Django ā Figma, Miro