# Ron Vaisman (@ronvaisman.dev)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/ronvaisman.dev
Headline: Frontend Technical Lead

## About

A passionate front-end web developer specializing in dynamic and server-side rendered React applications. Heavily focused on accessibility and user-first interfaces. Experience designing and working on large scale design systems, creating robust reusable components and patterns.

## Career

- **Technical Lead at theScore Inc.** (Jan 2024 - Present)
- **Senior Software Engineer at theScore Inc.** (Mar 2023 - Present)
- **Senior Frontend Developer at Lunchbox** (Dec 2021 - Jan 2023)
  Lead a team that was in charge of revamping the company's food ordering platform and created a reusable component library that gives the company a cohesive brand across all of their online product offerings.
- **Sr. Software Engineer at Achievers** (Mar 2019 - Dec 2021)
  Leading a team of frontend engineers that was responsible for designing and implementing a branded design system/pattern library used by the entire organization. Currently working on major platform features and advocating for accessibility and usability.
- **Frontend Developer at Garlicoin** (Dec 2017 - Dec 2021)
  Sole maintainer of garlicoin.io. In charge of UI, UX, development, and deployment.
- **Full Stack Developer at Qoints** (Mar 2018 - Mar 2019)
  \- Headed the development of multiple React/Redux social media analysis applications, focusing on influencer discovery and customer acquisition.
  \- Added social media authentication and created a user profile database using Firebase Auth and Realtime Database.
  \- Developed per-client applications that resulted in significant project revenue increases.
  \- Worked extensively with the Twitter, Instagram, and IBM Watson/Cloud APIs.
  \- Revamped the user experience of client-facing applications and improved developer experience by building custom internal tooling.
- **Frontend Developer at Rockstar Music Central** (May 2017 - Sep 2017)
  \- Converted a PHP website to server-side rendered React.
  \- Decreased initial load time and subsequent page load times by a factor of five.
  \- Added a UI for region selection and region-specific subdomains to improve SEO, allowing Rockstar
  \- Music to reach more customers.
  \- Styling rewritten using SCSS for a more maintainable, efficient and responsive experience.
- **Frontend Developer at DANQEX** (Aug 2016 - Sep 2017)
  \- Co-founder and developer for a social trend tracking and media analysis startup.
  \- Designed and implemented a complex financial software inspired user interface.
  \- Integrated a pipeline that processed thousands of images and text documents daily to generate a real-time value for user-submitted media.
  \- Coordinated a team-wide transition from Angular 1 to React.
  \- Worked with an all remote team using agile software development strategies.

## Skills

### Technical
- a11y
- Accessibility
- Front-end Development
- Git
- GraphQL
- HTML5
- JavaScript
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Python (Programming Language)
- React.js
- Redux.js
- SCSS
- Software Design
- Software Development
- Testing
- TypeScript
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Web Development
### Creative
- Design Systems
- User Experience (UX)
- User Experience Design (UED)
- User Interface Design
- Web Design
### Interpersonal
- Mentoring
### Other
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- End-to-end Testing
- Gatsby.js
- GatsbyJS
- I18n
- Microfrontends
- Responsive Web Design
- Serverless Computing
- Software Documentation
- Web Applications

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-vaisman