Jamey David Lazarus
Web Applications Architect
SF Bay Area, CA
**********@*****.***
https://jmslazarus.github.io
Summary
Proficient and creative UI Engineer with over 15 years of web application development experience. Areas of Focus: Leading a team of engineers, developing intuitive and accessible applications Technologies: JavaScript, ES6+, Typescript, SASS/SCSS, Webpack, Rollup, Node, Express, React, Angular, WebGL, Three.js, ChartsJS, D3, WebSockets, ServiceWorker, WebRTC, SQL, MySQL, GraphQL, Storybook, Git/GitHub/CoPilot, CI/CD, Jenkins, Ansible, Piper, Jest, Cypress, Mobile, Cross Browser, Responsive Design, WCAG, Accessibility Skills:
Leading and nurturing a team of developers utilizing remote collaboration tools
Optimization techniques for fetching, manipulating and rendering big data
Configuring development environments and CI/CD pipeline
Writing thorough documentation, best practices, and clean self-documenting code
Creating seamless user experiences across sessions and devices
Responsive design techniques for mobile and desktop
Leveraging E2E and unit testing to maintain a high percentage of code coverage Experience
Visa
Lead Data Engineer
10/2022 – 11/2024
Architect for Visa’s Federated Data Management UI and oversaw 8 major releases
Technologies utilized included React, Typescript, Material-UI, Java, MySQL
Technical lead and manager for a team of five developers in multiple time zones
Handled CI/CD creation and management via CloudView, Jenkins, Piper, Ansible and Docker
Ensured strict adherence to WCAG and VGAR accessibility standards and certifications
Maintained >75% code coverage with Jest-based unit tests, plus Functional and E2E testing
UI/UX user research, creation of mockups and final design for dozens of new feature stories 4/2021 – 10/2022
UI Team Lead for Visa’s Parsec Data Platform
Technologies utilized included React, Angular, Node.JS, GraphQL
Maintained development of 4 major UI applications, 5 dashboards, and a dozen+ smaller tools Dun & Bradstreet
Principal UI Engineer
6/2019 – 1/2021
Oversaw the design and development of 7 different JS, Node, React, and Angular projects
Worked closely with Product Management/Design Team at all stages of the product lifecycle
Utilized NodeJS/Express for serving the frontend, proxies, and establishing API endpoints
Migrated AngularJS legacy apps to newer frameworks like Angular 2+/Typescript and ReactJS Lattice Engines
Principal UI Engineer
5/2015 – 6/2019
Lattice Engines was purchased by Dun and Bradstreet in 2019 TheFind
Senior UI Engineer
6/2007 – 3/2015
Maintained and contributed to custom libraries.
Responsible for new feature development and supporting tools for our custom JS framework.
Project lead on several Web applications and mobile projects in the online consumer sales space.
TheFind was purchased by Facebook in 2015
Personal Projects
Elation WebGL Engine and JavaScript Framework
A senior contributor to the project and member of the core development team.
Developed many key components including ways of handling inheritance, namespacing, custom events, and various custom UI controls and utility functions. Elation Window Manager
Designed and implemented a robust window management system to host custom mini-apps
Window frames could be resized from any corner/edge, rolled up or moved via their title bar
Grouping could treat multiple windows from the same mini-app together for certain behaviors
A system to track z-indexing was implemented to handle focus management
Presets for various window types and interactive components (buttons, dropdowns, etc) Stella Imperia
An Elite-Style WebGL multiplayer space FPS game
Created all gameplay code, 3D models, textures, and sounds
Generated a galaxy of unique star systems to explore based on procedural design techniques
Created a 3D cockpit with HUD, mapped screens and a holographic radar
Developed numerous ship systems, weapons, and various particle effects
Coded menus and configuration screens using the Elation Window Manager Education
Keiser College
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Computer Programming
Languages: C, C++, JAVA, JavaScript, HTML
Systems: Windows, MacOS, Linux, UNIX
Lynn University
Boca Raton, FL
Graphic Design
Applications: Maya, 3D Studio Max, Blender, Photoshop