Front-End Engineer

John Gallego

Senior Front-End Engineer

Career Summary

Highly experienced front-end engineer with over 15 years in developing user-centric web applications. Expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue.js, and Angular, with a strong focus on creating interactive, responsive, and performant user interfaces. Proven ability to lead front-end development efforts, mentor teams, and implement efficient deployment pipelines.

Professional Experience

Full Stack Engineer - Natural Health Sherpa/Metabolic Living Freelance Contractor: Nov 2020 – June 2021, Full-time Employee: June 2021 – May 2023 Architected and developed key front-end components of a SaaS meal planning platform using Angular, resulting in $4M investment.

Boosted key performance metrics by over 300% through significant front-end optimizations, including SSR and caching strategies.

Improved user engagement by 40% through the implementation of AI-driven, user-friendly front-end features.

Mentored junior developers on modern front-end technologies and best practices, accelerating their contributions.

Led efforts to containerize the application, improving deployment pipelines by 200%. Freelance Full Stack Developer - Digital Frameworks LLC 2017 - Present

Led the front-end development for a real-time multiplayer platform using React, supporting hundreds of concurrent players.

Developed interactive and user-friendly dashboards for a dealership data aggregation API using Vue.js. Created the front-end for a social media platform (JourneyLink) using React Native, integrating Google Places API and LLMs.

Significantly improved performance and component readability across a large, complex UI for an innovative performance management platform (uptickapp.com). Guided junior and mid-level developers through complex front-end migrations, such as Angular 1 to modern Angular and React to Next.js.

Developed the user interface for a mobile application featuring real-time character recognition using React Native.

Software Developer - Russell Research

2012 - 2017

Spearheaded the creation of an interactive online survey platform using Angular 2+, featuring drag-and- drop ranking, heat map, and shelf test questions, significantly improving user engagement and enabling mobile accessibility.

Developed the front-end for an internal web application using modern JavaScript frameworks, enabling project directors to independently perform data analysis, dramatically reducing turnaround times. Led the development of a responsive web survey platform with a strong focus on UX and interactivity. Created custom UI tools enabling efficient survey customization. Education

Associate's Degree in Computer Science - New Jersey City University, 2003 Contact

**************@*****.***

Jersey City, NJ

GitHub

(https://github.com/JohnGallego)

LinkedIn

(https://linkedin.com/in/john-

gallego-68688169)

Technical Skills

Frontend: React, Vue.js, Angular,

Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript,

HTML, CSS, Responsive Design,

UI/UX principles

Tools: Redux, Tailwind CSS, A/B

Testing Frameworks, LLM

Integrations

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