Justin Paresky

Justin Paresky

About Me
Experience
paresky.justin@gmail.com1-781-223-0467GithubInstagram

Experience

About Me
Experience
paresky.justin@gmail.com1-781-223-0467GithubInstagram
July 2003 - Current

Senior Frontend Engineer - Confluent

Maintain and enhance both the marketing and developer facing websites, as well as shared core components. Take the lead on optimizing and refactoring existing legacy code. Work with the SEO and content production teams to boost our exposure and engagement.

confluent.iodeveloper.confluent.io
React
CSS
Gatsby
Netlify
Optimizely
Segment
Cypress
Jest
GraphQL
Semaphore
CI/CD
Webpack
Figma
August 2017 - January 2022

Principal Frontend Engineer - Black Book Media, Inc.

Designed and built the front end for an event management app from the ground up. Used latest framework and code standards to make app fast and responsive. Focused on mobile first design for best user experience.

doormouse.com
React
Redux
Material UI
Mapbox
Styled Components
SCSS
Webpack
February 2022 - May 2023

Senior Frontend Engineer - Shopify

Built and maintained KYC form for onboarding merchants to new money products. Designed novel approach to conditional rendering and validation to comply with multiple country’s legal requirements. Rigorous pair programming and code review with team to ensure code quality in a no QA workflow.

React
TypeScript
SCSS
GraphQL
CI/CD
Ruby on Rails
RSpec
Webpack
Figma
October 2015 - February 2022

Senior Frontend Engineer - Nuance Communications

Redesigned a rebuilt NLU and Dialog text-to-speech model building application. Converted existing application framework from Angular to React, greatly improving performance. Collaborated with UX team to build unique enhancements and features to further enhance user experience. Built a fullstack serverless internal application using AWS services for our in-dash automotive research division.

Mix.NLUMix.Dialog
React
Redux
RxJS
SCSS
Angular
AWS
Bootstrap
Backbone
Webpack
Figma
December 2014 – October 2015

Frontend Web Developer - Liaison International

Redesigned and rebuilt an entire internal application to Bootstrap 3 standards, greatly improving usability and speed. Built an enhancement into an existing application that became a multi-million dollar revenue generator. Created a hot deploy configuration that integrates grunt, maven, and JBoss server that significantly increased team efficiency.

Centralized Application Service
Angular
CSS
Bootstrap
Grunt
Maven
JBoss
April 2014 – December 2014

Frontend Web Developer - Harvard Business Publishing

Build and style existing application for mobile use and optimization, including mobile phone and tablet. Maintain and enhance legacy applications. Design and build custom portals for clients to support individual use-case needs.

Angular
CSS
Grunt
Bootstrap
April 2011 – April 2014

Frontend Web Developer - Bain and Company

Generate dynamic mockups and function front-end code for new applications. Work with development team to come up with innovative ways to upgrade existing applications. Research new trends and tools in the web development world and present them to the team at large.

Javascript
Bootstrap
CSS
Photoshop
Powerpoint
August 2008 – April 2011

Technical Writer - Rocket Software

Work with developers and UX to author clear and concise documentation for a database management application. Publish to multiple different formats, including robohelp, web, embedded, and PDF. Work directly with international translators to localize documentation to IBM standards.

DITA
Eclipse
HTML
CSS
June 2008 - August 2008

Technical Writer - Eze Castle Software

Upgrade and maintained inline help materials for a hedge fund management application.

HTML
CSS
JavaScript