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.
Cut render time by 46% on a billion-user consumer platform, through targeted prefetching and preloading on hot paths.
Migrated a legacy React app to a TypeScript monorepo, establishing type safety and shared tooling across the codebase.
Led a cross-team frontend group, mentoring engineers and driving adoption of new architecture and patterns across projects.
JavaScriptTypescriptGo (Golang)
Nodejs
Web Performance Optimization (WPO)
Cross-functional leadership
Refactoring
Tally
Senior Web Engineer
2023 - 2024 (1 year)
Remote
Re-architected the Web SDK’s embedded iframe to serve multiple apps from configurable entry points, cutting new-feature dev time by 90%.
Led cross-team authentication design (sessions, cookies, rate limits) across Web and mobile SDKs in a compliance-heavy fintech environment handling SSN collection.
Integrated Plaid APIs for bank linking, credit-card listing, and identity verification in the Web SDK.
Designed and implemented the components of a more special article type on a "Featured Article" solution for the client - manoeuvring 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 frontend 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.
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.
