Senior Frontend Engineer
Seattle, WA(206) 612-4217paullferguson@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/paullferguson
Summary
Engineer from the UK with a passion for building and exploring. Started in Industrial Product Design. Switched to the web. 10+ years working with a wide range of clients. Predominantly as a Frontend engineer with an eye for UX, web performance and design.
Experience
Quiet Platforms, Seattle, WA, full-time, remote
Quiet Platforms are a subsidiary of American Eagle Outfitters, Inc providing a collaborative fulfillment and delivery network for household-name retailers like AEO and Peloton.
Senior Software Engineer
Nov 2022 - PresentPrimary FE Engineer in greenfield org tasked with developing new apps. Managed and reviewed work of 7 remote FE contractors. Interviewed, onboarded, and mentored new hires.
- Built out React components for the company Design System. From Figma to Storybook in Typescript, consumed by other teams via our monorepo and GCP artifact registry, enabling internal and external teams to build quality UI twice as fast.
- Established FE roadmap and best practices around authoring, testing, accessibility, performance, OpenAPI, pipelines and knowledge sharing. Reduced build times by 80% and switched from JS to TS.
- Developed and deployed new major features like Shipping Reports and User management in TypeScript and React.
Xpanse, Seattle, WA, full-time, remote
Xpanse provides APIs and tools for the mortgage application lifecycle.
Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022Primary FE dev responsible for establishing and scaling greenfield apps and team.
- Built from scratch client-facing Svelte apps, guiding architecture, technology and tooling choices. 0 to ~$2M in revenue.
- Grew FE team from 3 to 7; interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring 2 interns. Coached 2 junior devs leading to their promotion.
- Led daily standups working closely with product and design.
- Engineered and documented Component library from scratch.
- At short notice, switched FE deployment tooling to Vercel, improving deployment times, QA and reliability.
- Partnered with the data engineering team to develop UI for real-time event tracking (a popular differentiator for our product).
Adspur, London, UK, Contract, remote
Adspur is the online advertising awards calendar. It provides agencies and networks tools to upload, review, vote and submit their work for industry awards.
Frontend Engineer and Designer
Nov 2016 - Dec 2020One of 2 developers architecting and rebuilding a large Angular app with a complex domain and many features.
- Gathered feature requirements, planned and prototyped with Framer.
- Rebuilt legacy app with a large domain model in Angular using highly customized Material Design elements.
- New codebase meant we reacted quicker to stakeholders, grew from 2 to 5 major clients.
Makemedia, Brighton, UK, full-time, office
Web agency, clients were a mix of local businesses to large international companies. Working predominantly on jobs boards, publishing, portfolio sites and big data.
Frontend Engineer
April 2012 - May 2015Sole frontend developer working on many projects in parallel.
- Built CSS and HTML design systems for big ASP.NET data apps. Built community Wordpress multi-sites.
- Utilized frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation.
- Mentored junior devs, helped with interviewing and transitioned the company to git.
- Won a PPA Awards Winner of Digital Innovation of the Year 2016 as the team frontend dev for project Glenigan; built in Angular.
Education
University of Sussex, UK, Industrial Product Design BSc
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 self supported 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