Doug is a Senior Front-end Developer with with 10 years of experience delivering high-impact products to millions of users across diverse industries including fintech, legal-tech, insurance-tech, and web agencies. He specializes in front-end architecture and engineering leadership, with a strong focus on accessibility, user experience, and building scalable, maintainable codebases. Doug's expertise includes React development, client-side JavaScript experience, React UI knowledge, and familiarity with Design Patterns and responsive design. He crafts architectural and design solutions to enhance performance, security, and reliability. Doug makes high-level design decisions and writes scalable code to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements, implementing reusable UI components based on modern web tools and technologies.
Led the development of various front-end projects within the Web SDK as part of the web team.
Led the initiative to scale the system by creating multiple SDK entry points, which was essential to building a feature.
Developed technical specifications, facilitated team discussions, and implemented the chosen solution, reducing development time for new entry points by 90% and improving developer experience while meeting partner delivery goals.
Led the implementation of authentication for the web team, collaborating with stakeholders across mobile platform and back-end teams to design a unified solution.
Oversaw the integration on the web, ensuring it was secure, dev-friendly, thoroughly tested, and fully compliant with the specification document.
Worked on dev processes to scope, set up, and deliver the base architecture for the solution, designing and creating various currency tools for the website using React and TypeScript. Implemented the currency tools to fetch information through the client's internal API for calculation on the currency calculator. Optimized solutions for SEO and handled the complexities of different tasks on the project.
Designed and implemented the components of a more special article type on a "Featured Article" solution for the client, maneuvering around complicated design features using Figma to deliver a fully working page. Worked on a custom video player solution and innovative scroll animations that made the page interactive.
Led dev processes to redesign the blog page for a high-profile client, working on the entire front-end architecture of the blog to enhance performance and accessibility for users. Delivered high scores on Google's Web Vitals for Desktop (99) and mobile (>90) on the solution, focusing on accessibility for a user-focused solution.
