I am a front-end focused engineer with back-end experience.
I love working on high-impact UI performance optimizations. My
favorite type of work though is Architecture, because of how it
impacts the entire organization. Architecture is what lets
organizations collaborate and scale as well as optimize local
performance.
I value readability and maintainability, because nothing makes me
happier than making the future engineers enjoy working with my code
because of its meaningful semantics, ease of change and removal as
well as testability.
I like to work on tools, which improve the Developer Experience and
that is why I invest in Open Source.
As part of the Core Automation Services Team, I develop UI
interfaces and infrastructure that runs in every Tesla factory on
all stations. This software is a human-machine interface allowing
workers on assembly lines to manufacture cars in high volume.
I am responsible for UI architecture, UI infrastructure and E2E
Testing of the application.
Achievements
I
defined
and implemented the UI architecture we are now using.
I laid out the foundation for conventions and best practices we
are using.
I kicked of migration to TypeScript, ensuring we have a clear
migration path and enforcing the best possible type-safety for the
new code from now on.
I was a foundational part of our E2E Testing setup that is based
on
Playwright.
I am introducing the Tesla Design System to the product to make it
consistent with the rest of the brand.
I am constantly looking and helping to improve the processes and
tools around them.
Webflow is a tool for designers and makers that allows them to build
a fully custom production-ready site that includes the designer,
CMS, E-Commerce, and more.
My area is the designer. I was part of the engineering team building
the UI that customers use to design their site.
Achievements
I laid the foundation of flow types in the style system. Webflow
has adopted
flow type
retrospectively and my task was to define types for the existing
style system.
The type safety of the style system is now one of the best
parts of the product. While it still isn't sound, changing
types can inform an engineer of many of the call sites
necessary to rectify.
—Dustan Kasten, Engineering Manager
I refactored and migrated the synchronization logic for CSS in
the designer. It was inconsistently serialized, deserialized,
and modified during loading and saving phases. It was
challenging because hundreds of thousands of sites were using
differently generated CSS because of the changes introduced to
the designer. I have managed to migrate the pre- and
post-processing logic while making sure no site has been
affected.
Removing "styleText" was legit a big deal. Be proud of that!
That has been looked at with closed- eyes by so many
engineers over the years. Also, while it had a clear end
goal, there wasn't much pre-defined on what to do, and you
navigated a poorly lit tunnel to shut it off and learned a
lot about our data integrity and a portion of our patching
system along the way!
—Dustan Kasten, Engineering Manager
I built parts of the new Style Engine as part of the Style System
effort that is powering today local and default styles rendering
on the canvas and server-side rendered atoms styles.
I lead the Distributed Architecture Pre-Brief. It's goal was to
discuss and formalize architectural problems and potential
solutions in the entire organization. We have collaboratively
created a high-quality, concise document that laid a foundation
for the roadmap for the years to come.
I have created several pull requests with proof of concepts for
the CSS-in-JS solution Webflow could use to build it's Designer
UI.
I created 2 RFC documents that encode patterns for optimizing
performance, which will hopefully help shape the culture around
performance and align the engineering with those specific ideas.
I was part of the Larger Breakpoints effort, which was quite a
heavy refactoring of our breakpoints logic. We have unified the
logic handling breakpoints across the entire designer, making it
consistent, type-safe, easier to understand, and prepared for the
next potential step - custom breakpoints.
I built "Isolation Mode" - a feature that would allow users to
view a single component in isolation. It is a big deal for complex
sites, where working on one particularly complex element in
isolation reduces cognitive load and creates clarity.
I have been part of the componentization effort, fixing various
bugs with nested symbols (components). In particular, I have been
fixing a lot of bugs related to isolation mode and nestability.
I mentored several engineers, including senior engineers, by
providing meaningful, in-depth explanations in Pull Requests and
pair programming with them in real-time.
I made it my responsibility to increase test coverage and types
coverage in every code area I touched myself or reviewed as a Pull
Request.
I actively tackled technical debts by making them transparent
through documentation and bringing them up in the sprint planning.
MoVe is a secret new Ebay Classifieds Motors Vertical company.
My role is to align 4 Web Front-End teams with architectural choices
and ensure the quality while moving fast and aligned with the
release plan.
During that time I managed to introduce a new "Feature Driven
Architecture" to the teams, wrote a number of ADRs and articles,
created POCs for the architecture and GraphQL API Gateway.
Smart messaging for big businesses.
Secure enterprise communication with integrations for all business
services. On-premise or in the cloud.
The web application is built using technologies like React/Redux,
JSS and Electron. It uses a fully virtualized messages history
rendering by leveraging
react-virtualized
and though it provides a truly infinite scrolling on the web
platform. Application is fully decoupled through React components,
Redux and JSS. It works like a native application on Windows as well
as on MacOS thanks to Electron. Also, it has an installer for
Windows. It performs well and has low maintenance footprint.
Kiipost is a mobile app which allows users to stay in the know about
relevant updates, highly related to things they share online.
I worked on an MVP, a mobile app built with
famo.us. The app is working cross platform, it is fully responsive on the
level of native apps.
My Back-end aggregates 30k RSS feeds to provide updates to the user.
I have created a tool called "extractor", which provides
functionality similar to
embedly.
Backend is written using latest Node.js version, leveraging
generators.
I use twitter API to access users tweets. I analyze users links,
extract keywords, entities and images, I use readability algorithm
to extract the right content. I created an algorithm to extract the
most important keywords from articles.
Created the backend service as well as web Front-End. Backend is
done on top of Heroku's stateless infrastructure. It provides HTTP
API for the web and mobile Front-End for Android and iOS. I used
Node.js and MongoDB on the backend, backbone, jQuery and lots of
other libraries on Front-End. Some of the challenging tasks were:
scalable candidates calculation, real-time communication, Facebook
integration, horizontal scale and constantly changing
requirements.
I was the first employee of this new social dating platform. Our
vision was to create a platform where people learn each other in a
playful way, with no shame to share it.
Skim connects you with people around you. If the interest is mutual,
we let you know on the spot. Life's a game – level up!
Refactored the UI for campaigns creation. Reduced amount of code by
factor 2.
AudienceScience is transforming digital advertising from complex to
simple, from murky to fully transparent, and from wasteful to
extremely efficient, all with the goal of generating the best
digital advertising performance for the advertiser, and the
consumer.
I was leading the company's Front-End development, created the
complete architecture, dozens of high quality and high performance
jQuery plugins. It was a challenging job because the company was
growing very fast (from 500k to 3mio users). Within 2 years I have
completely refactored the old code base, ported it from prototype.js
to jQuery, did a huge amount of load and runtime performance
optimizations.
Jimdo offers a free website creator that anyone can use. In just a
few minutes and without any technical knowledge, everyone can create
a place on the Internet – complete with online store, blog, photo
galleries, YouTube videos and much more.
I was developing high performance UI components as jQuery plugins
using JavaScript, CSS, HTML for company's own CMS. To name a few:
Filemanager, WindowEngine, Tree, Tooltip, Lightbox, Image Cropper.
I was developing cross platform middle-sized projects using PHP,
Smarty, MySql, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Most of those projects are
backed by the company's own CMS.
