Senior Frontend Engineer

Arron Hensley

Senior Frontend Engineer

Lester, WV 25865 304-***-****

*****.**********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-hensley-051314333/ A Frontend Professional with 7+ years of experience in both enterprise and startup environments. Primary language: JavaScript. Mostly worked in industries like Video-Streaming, LMS, AI. Passionate about challenging the status quo and writing a unique story in my developer diary. Work Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer May 2023 - Present

FishAngler, LLC FL, United States

Worked on 3 Multiple applications - Community Web Portal, Fishing Map Web Portal, and Fishing Map Mobile application. Engaged 1.5M users, primarily targeting fishers based in Florida, to enhance app utilization and community engagement.

● Redesigned the fishing community web interface focusing on mobile responsiveness, enhanced user experience, and getting increased user acquisition and visits by 125%.

● Migrated the fishing map web app from PHP to React & PREACT under the design, improving performance by 170%.

● Leveraged React, Tailwind CSS, and Storybook for designing and building an intuitive MVP from Figma designs, resulting in a sleek user interface with a development time reduction of 25%.

● Exploited React Native to successfully launch an iOS and Android-compatible fishing spots application, compliant with Standards of WCAG for mobile apps, rated 4.5/5 on APPSTORE.

● Fine-tuned overall performance and user search experience by 45%, using TYPESENSE, augmented by infinite scrolling + virtualized scrolling + DEBOUNCING + predictive search fields.

● Chaired routine technical check-ins and reviews, providing mentorship and guidance to 3 team members and advancing their React and Next.js understanding and proficiency.

● Curated and managed 100+ DEM files within QGIS, resolve inconsistencies in layers, spots, polygons, and bathymetric data.

● Strengthened the CICD pipeline by integrating the Jest and Cypress testing suite, ensuring that all written codes have 90% test coverage prior to deployment. Senior Frontend Developer Nov 2020 - Apr 2023

IBM Remote

IBM e-config Cloud Web - StorM (Storage Modeller)

● Worked on IBM's e-config cloud web application by leveraging Angular 14.3 and TypeScript.

● Developed and maintained web UI components for some features of cloud products from Audi, Verizon, and Samsung, mostly the subscription billing feature, using Angular 14.3 and RxJS for state management.

● Transitioned AI platform from RESTful / Class-based components to functional components using TypeScript, React Hooks, GraphQL, and Redux/Saga for 25% improved performance and reusability.

● Fixed 12 vulnerabilities like bypassing security for untrusted items and insecure use of INNERHTML or OUTERHTML.

● Participated in sprint planning and retrospective meetings, contributing to continuous improvement practices within the team for 4 years.

● Collaborated with design, product, backend, and testing teams, and coordinated with 7 developers across Brazil, Germany, and Poland.

Web Developer (Mid) Mar 2016 - Nov 2020

Zillow United States

● Built Zillow’s Make Me Move feature, allowing homeowners to post a selling price for their home, substantially increased platform’s traffic by 25%.

● Developed a Virtual Tours feature allowing users to see house listings in a 3D view using WebGL and Three.js, leading to 40% increase in on-page engagement.

● Optimized 45+ web pages by using React tricks, new features and additional hooks, MEMOIZATION React Components, lazy loading of images and so forth.

● Conducted code reviews and provided constructive feedback to improve code quality and performance across 7 web applications.

● Developed the RESTful APIs for fetching 7000+ property listings, agent information, etc using Node.js, and Fastify.

Projects

Future Home Photo Jun 2019 - Nov 2020

Completed this project using React, Framer, and MATTERPORT API for 17 months. Used Framer to create an elegant and attractive website for this project that would be user-friendly, leading to 40% increase in on-page engagement.

Fishing Spots - Fish Maps May 2023 - Aug 2024

Participated in this mobile application development with my React Native expertise for 16 months. Built local fishing spots, get 16-day fishing forecasts, and track all your catches with pictures and comments on various skinned map, which linked to web community post. Core Skills

JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, React, Next.js, Nuxt.js, SSR, SSG, Angular, Vue.js, Three.js, Tableau, D3.js, RESTful APIs, REST, JSON APIs, Node.js, Fastify, Python, GraphQL, Jest, Cypress, Webpack, npm, yarn, Git, Web Accessibility, WCAG, GitHub, Responsive Web Design, Web Performance Optimization, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Docker, headless CMS development, WatsonX, Generative AI, LLM, NLP

Education

West Virginia University Jan 2012 - Feb 2016

Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering

Interests

Video Game, Cooking, Fitness

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