Staff Frontend Engineer, React TypeScript

JESSICA THOMPSON

Staff Frontend Engineer

925-***-**** · *************@*****.*** · linkedin.com/in/jessicathompson000 · Brentwood, CA Staff Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting and scaling high-performance SaaS platforms, from 0 to 800+ businesses, and creative operations workflows. Proven track record in defining frontend architecture and component design systems using React and TypeScript to drive projects forward amidst ambiguity. Expert at shipping polished user experiences while maintaining consistent design language and performance at scale for global retail and cybersecurity leaders.

EXPERIENCE

Staff Frontend Engineer Dec 2024 – Jun 2026

WatchGuard Technologies Inc. · Seattle, WA

– Architected a full UI/UX redesign and rebrand of a customer-facing cybersecurity SaaS platform, defining and implementing a scalable React and TypeScript frontend architecture to enable creative teams.

– Shipped responsive, accessible interfaces using React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, ensuring consistent design systems and performance at scale for core workflows.

– Collaborated with backend engineers to deliver high-performance end-to-end features using Python, MongoDB, and AWS cloud services within a fast-paced startup-style environment.

– Scaled frontend codebase to 90% test coverage by refactoring custom hook architecture and reducing component complexity, establishing testing patterns adopted across the engineering team.

– Architected and implemented a role-based access control (RBAC) system, designing a centralized permissions API that resolved user roles server-side and hydrated a frontend permission map at session init, enabling dynamic UI rendering across all pages based on read/write/no-access entitlements per user type. Senior Frontend Engineer Feb 2021 – Dec 2024

ActZero Inc · Seattle, WA (Remote)

– Architected a next-generation customer portal and built a 30+ component library and design system in React/TypeScript, scaling from zero to supporting 800+ businesses and standardizing UI patterns across the platform.

– Shipped AI-powered user experiences and intelligent workflow automation by integrating LangChain and Amazon Bedrock into the frontend architecture.

– Mentored junior engineers and led code reviews to establish frontend development standards that improved team-wide code quality and project velocity.

– Scaled interactive data visualizations with D3.js to surface complex security telemetry as actionable customer insights for creative operations.

Senior Frontend Engineer Dec 2019 – Jan 2021

Gap Inc · San Francisco, CA

– Architected frontend modernization efforts that improved application performance, maintainability, and cross-browser consistency for high-traffic ecommerce workflows.

– Scaled adoption of TDD and Jest-based testing strategies, significantly increasing test coverage and reducing regression risk across the platform.

– Shipped customer-facing ecommerce features using React and Sass, optimizing polished frontend experiences for a global audience.

– Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver multilingual, globally optimized web experiences and design systems. Founding Frontend Engineer Oct 2018 – Dec 2019

KlearNow · Santa Clara, CA

– Architected core frontend architecture across 5+ microservices from the ground up, enabling global scalability for a logistics and supply chain SaaS platform.

– Shipped reusable component libraries that standardized UI patterns and accelerated feature development across multiple creative engineering teams.

– Mentored engineers on frontend best practices and established a high-performance engineering culture focused on quality and maintainability.

Senior Frontend Engineer Mar 2018 – Sep 2018

Walmart Labs · Sunnyvale, CA

– Developed high-performance web and mobile platform features using React, Redux, and React Native for one of the largest retail platforms in the US.

– Led accessibility initiatives to achieve ADA compliance across key customer-facing experiences, ensuring inclusive design for millions of users.

Lead Frontend Engineer Jun 2016 – Dec 2017

Ximyx · Santa Clara, CA

– Led UI engineering and frontend architecture for audience-focused web applications, shipping user engagement improvements in a distributed team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

CORE React · TypeScript · Next.js · JavaScript · HTML5 · CSS3 · Sass · Tailwind CSS ARCHITECTURE Component Design · Design Systems · Frontend Architecture · Storybook · Redux · Figma · Responsive Design AI & DOMAIN SaaS · Creative Operations · AI Integration · LLM Integrations · LangChain · Amazon Bedrock · AI Workflow Automation · Cursor AI

TESTING Jest · Vitest · TDD · Mocha · Chai · Performance Optimization · Accessibility INFRASTRUCTURE AWS · Node.js · Python · REST APIs · GraphQL · MongoDB · DynamoDB · CI/CD EDUCATION

Graduate, Full-Stack Development — Hack Reactor, San Francisco, CA Jan 2018 Associate of Arts — University of Phoenix, CA Jan 2015 Ongoing Computer Science Coursework — Udemy, Online 2026

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