Jordan Rivera

Senior Frontend Engineer

Berlin, Germany | [email protected] | +49 30 1234 5678
jordanrivera.dev | github.com/jrivera | linkedin.com/in/jrivera

Summary

Frontend engineer with eight years of experience building fast, accessible web applications. Specialized in React, TypeScript, and design systems. Comfortable owning features end to end, from product discovery through shipping and measurement.

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer, Northwind Labs

Jan 2022 to Present, Berlin

• Led the migration of a legacy Angular app to React and TypeScript, cutting bundle size by 40 percent.
• Built a shared component library adopted by five product teams, reducing UI bugs by a third.
• Mentored three junior engineers and ran the weekly frontend guild meeting.

Frontend Engineer, Brightpixel

Jun 2018 to Dec 2021, Remote

• Shipped the customer dashboard used by more than 50,000 monthly active users.
• Improved Lighthouse performance scores from 62 to 95 across core pages.
• Introduced automated visual regression testing into the release pipeline.

Junior Web Developer, Studio Kite

Aug 2016 to May 2018, Munich

• Developed responsive marketing sites for a dozen clients using semantic HTML and CSS.
• Collaborated with designers to turn Figma mockups into pixel-accurate pages.

Skills

• Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Frameworks: React, Next.js, Vue, Node.js
• Tools: Vite, Webpack, Playwright, Storybook, Figma
• Practices: Accessibility, performance, design systems, testing

Education

B.Sc. Computer Science, Technical University of Munich

2012 to 2016

Graduated with honors. Thesis on progressive web application performance.

Projects

• OpenChart - an open-source charting library with 4,000 stars on GitHub.
• Focus Timer - a minimalist Pomodoro app built with React and local storage.

Languages

• English (fluent)
• German (fluent)
• Spanish (conversational)