Senior Frontend Engineer
Seattle, WA(206) 612-4217paullferguson@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/paullferguson
Summary
With a decade of experience and passion for building I’ve designed, shipped and scaled applications for a range of companies large and startup. Grown and lead teams as a Frontend engineer while delivering the best UX (user experience), performance and design for companies.
Experience
Quiet Platforms, Seattle, WA
Senior Software Engineer
2022 - 2023Part of a new org tasked with developing next-gen apps and company best practices at American Eagle Outfitters logistics company.
- Built company's React Design System in Typescript. From Figma to Storybook, consumed by other teams via our monorepo and GCP (Google Cloud) Artifact Registry, enabling internal and external teams to build quality UI twice as fast.
- Established FE company roadmap, publishing best practices around authoring, testing, accessibility, performance, OpenAPI, pipelines and knowledge sharing.
- Reduced build times by 80% and switched from JavaScript to TypeScript.
- Managed and reviewed the work of 7 remote FE contractors. Interviewed, onboarded, and mentored new hires.
- Developed and deployed a new User Management service allowing hundreds of users from 10+ new customers to administer their users permissions. Enabling the company to scale up new business an order of magnitude faster.
Xpanse, Seattle, WA
Senior Software Engineer
2020 - 2022Fintech. Primary FE dev responsible for establishing and scaling greenfield apps and team.
- Developed and delivered client-facing applications in Svelte, React, Redux and Storybook, guiding architectural and tooling choices. From concept to ~$2M in revenue.
- Deployed to AWS (Amazon web services) with Bitbucket pipelines. OpenAPI-based packages for APIs. Build with Vite, along with Jest and Cypress for testing.
- Grew FE team from 3 to 7; interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring 2 interns. Coached 2 junior devs leading to their promotion.
- Led daily standups for 10+ engineers, working closely with product and design.
- Engineered and documented the company Component Library from scratch.
- I upgraded the FE deployment to Vercel, improving deployment times, QA and reliability.
Adspur, London, UK
Frontend Engineer and Designer
2016 - 2020Advertising awards platform and calendar. Lead frontend developer architecting and rebuilding a large Angular app with many features and user types.
- Worked closely with the CEO, gathering feature requirements, planning new work and prototyping in Framer.
- Rebuilt 5 legacy apps with a large domain model into a single Angular application using highly customized Material Design elements.
- Reacted to stakeholder requirements quickly and effectively, growing the company from 2 to 5 major clients.
Makemedia, Brighton, UK
Frontend Engineer
2012 - 2015Sole frontend developer working on many projects in parallel.
- Built CSS and HTML design systems for ASP.NET data apps. Built community projects with WordPress multi-sites and portfolio sites with Orchard and Drupal.
- Championed and utilized frameworks like Knockout, Bootstrap and Foundation to rapidly speed up projects.
- Transitioned the company to git.
- PPA Awards Winner for Digital Innovation of the Year 2016 as the team frontend dev for project Glenigan; built in Angular.
Education
University of Sussex, UK, Bachelor of Science, Industrial Product Design
Personal
Mentor: Weekly Meetup promoting diversity in tech, Codebar, 2017 - 2019
Volunteer and speaker: Monthly Meetup and Conference, UX Camp Brighton, 2014 - 2018
Placed 9th in one of the hardest bike races across Europe, The Transcontinental, 2018
Trail building in Armenia: Transcaucasian Trail, 2017
Rode across Europe, Brazil and North America, Bike Tour, 2015 - 2016