Frontend Engineer React Js

KEVIN LOVING

+1-517-***-**** *******.***@*****.*** Louisville, KY, USA linkedin.com/in/kjloving/ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced Senior React Frontend Engineer and System Trader with expertise in building high-performance, real-time financial applications. Skilled in React.js, TypeScript, and Redux, with a focus on optimizing data rendering and creating intuitive UIs for traders. Leveraging a strong trading background, including Black-Scholes pricing and algorithmic strategies, to design platforms that enhance trading workflows and decision-making. Proven ability to collaborate with stakeholders and deliver tailored solutions in fast-paced environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Trustware Oslo, Norway

Staff Frontend Engineer April 2023 - Present

• Designed and developed the front-end for a crypto wallet security system using React.js, TypeScript, and Redux.

• Integrated Playwright for automated UI testing and enhanced user flows, reducing manual testing efforts.

• Worked closely with the design and product teams to build user-friendly interfaces for both technical and non-technical users in the blockchain space.

Forecastr Louisville, KY

Staff Frontend Engineer April 2020 - June 2023

• For ensuring real-time data rendering for large volumes of continuously updating market data, while maintaining low latency and a seamless user experience, employed React.js, TypeScript, and Redux to manage state efficiently, while optimizing the rendering pipeline for large data sets. Also used Ag-Grid for managing high-volume grid data, ensuring smooth scrolling and interactive features even under heavy load.

• Leveraged memoization techniques, virtualization, and efficient component re-renders to minimize performance bottlenecks, achieving sub-second load times for market updates.

• For building a scalable architecture that could support high-frequency trading data streams and ensuring minimal downtime during market fluctuations, designed the system to be modular and highly scalable, using event-driven architecture to ensure real-time updates and maintain system performance under high traffic.

• As an algorithmic trader, I leveraged my deep understanding of traders' needs and designed a UI/UX tailored to their workflow, ensuring that the platform was intuitive, fast, and responsive.

• Implemented price modeling using the Black-Scholes model, enabling the system to calculate option pricing and hedging strategies in real time.

• Worked closely with product managers and traders to iterate on user feedback, ensuring the system met both functional and user experience requirements in a fast-paced trading environment.

• Implemented Playwright for end-to-end automated testing, which was crucial for validating complex user interactions under real market conditions and reducing regression issues.

• To ensure robust data synchronization between the front-end and back-end systems, especially with the need for consistent real-time data across multiple trading sessions, integrated WebSockets for real-time communication and worked with backend engineers to implement data synchronization mechanisms that kept data consistent and updated across all users in real-time. Intuit Louisville, KY

Senior Fullstack engineer April 2018 - March 2020

• Enhanced internal developer portal with React, Redux, Node/Express, accelerating onboarding for hundreds of engineers

• Resolved CI/CD bottlenecks and API issues, reducing downtime by 30%

• Containerized services with Docker/Kubernetes, achieving 99.9% uptime

• Authored developer playbooks, cutting ramp up time by 25%. StoneX Group Louisville, KY

Senior Software Engineer III September 2014 - March 2018

• Developed trading dashboards with React, Redux, SciChart.js, and WebSockets, Playwright, reducing market data monitoring latency by 40% and enabling traders to react faster to price movements

• Designed and implemented backend services in Java Spring Boot to manage high frequency order book updates, ensuring accurate depth of market views and sub second synchronization across clients

• Engineered low latency data streaming pipelines with Redis, Kafka, and AWS, cutting data processing time by 50% and supporting millions of market updates per day

• Integrated machine learning models to generate predictive trade signals based on historical and live market data, improving trade decision accuracy and execution timing

• Dynamic pricing models: Collaborated with quants to design and deploy pricing engines that adapted to market volatility in real time, ensuring competitive bid/ask spreads while maintaining profitability. General Electric (GE) Louisville, KY

Fullstack Engineer June 2011 - August 2014

• Built enterprise web apps for smart cooking machines with React, Redux, Node.js

• Designed backend APIs and pipelines with Node.js, Express, SQL Server for IoT data ingestion

• Created dashboards with D3.js and Plotly for analytics

• Led AWS operations, optimizing S3, Docker, Kubernetes, cutting downtime by 35%. IBM Louisville, KY

Software Engineering Intern July 2010 - May 2011

• Built internal web apps in Javascript, HTML, CSS + Python/Flask to make team workflows smoother

• Wrote automated tests, participated in code reviews

• Documented workflows to speed onboarding.

EDUCATION

Georgia Institute of Technology April 2006 - October 2010 Bachelor's, Computer Science GPA: 3.98

SKILLS

Skills: HTML/CSS, Python, Agile, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, ASP.NET, Babel, Bash, C#, C/C++, CircleCI, D3.js, Django, Docker, Electron.js, FastAPI, Financial analysis, Figma, Financial Modeling, Firebase, Flask, Flutter, Gradle, Grafana, GraphQL, gRPC, Heroku, Hubspot, JavaScript, Jenkins, Jest, JIRA, jQuery, Jupyter, Keras, Kubernetes, LLM, Machine Learning, Microservices, MessageBird, MongoDB, Mongoose, MySQL, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Nest.js, .NET, Netlify, Neural Networks, Next.js, Nginx, Node.js, NoSQL, NumPy, OpenCV, Prisma, Pytorch, Quickbooks, R, RabbitMQ, React.js, Red Giant, React Native, Redis, Redux.js, REST APIs, Scikit-learn, Sentry, Selenium, ServiceNow, Socket.io, Software Testing, Solidity, Spring, Storybook, Tensorflow, Terraform, Tradeweb, TypeScript, Vue.js, Web Development, Webpack, Yarn, Zeplin, Zustand, Ag-Grid, Playwright, SciChart

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