Lindsey Wild Senior Front End Engineer

About

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Hi! I'm Lindsey Wild, a Senior Front End Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA. I have over 13 years of experience in the web industry. I've worked for companies large and small, mainly in online retail/eCommerce and consulting. I am also a certified Web Accessibilty Specialist (WAS).

I love learning about the latest trends in web development, and I'm always ready to get my hands dirty with new technologies. When I'm not coding or learing more about code, I enjoy being outdoors and going to the gym. I also like watching the Cleveland Indians, trying new recipes, and traveling.

Skills & Tools

Skills

  • JavaScript (ES6)
  • React
  • HTML
  • Sass/CSS/CSS-in-JS
  • Accessibility
  • Design Systems/Component Libraries
  • Testing (React Testing Library, Jest, Enzyme, Cypress)
  • Conference Speaking/Internal Trainings
  • Dev Team Management

Tools

  • Git/GitHub
  • Gulp/Webpack
  • Babel
  • Node/npm
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • WordPress/CMS
  • VSCode

Work Experience

Senior Front End Engineer @ Tuft & Needle

October 2019 - present

  • Part of core team planning, building, and architecting a design system using: React, TypeScript, Storybook, and Chromatic
  • Lead accessibility remediation efforts to get websites to meet WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
  • Lead several training sessions on accessibility for engineers, designers, and marketing
  • Migrate and convert pug/express codebase to React/NextJS
  • Part of team leading documentation improvement efforts, contributed to about 40% of all existing documentation
  • Part of team dedicated to rapidly launching new products on the website. Given a scope of 8 weeks and delivered in 5 weeks; new products increased sales significantly
  • Write and teach the team how to write integration tests (Cypress) for all 3 websites under our domain
  • Write unit tests (Jest/React Testing Library) for new and existing components
  • Build new features/maintain existing features in React for tuftandneedle.com, beautyrest.com, and serta.com
  • Utilize GraphQL API to automate product launches

Front End Developer @ Sparkbox

January 2018 - September 2019

  • Build React components for multi-million dollar e-commerce website
  • Collaborate with a team of UX designers and developers building, enhancing, and maintaining an enterprise-level design system
  • Develop new features using React, Sass, and JavaScript
  • Extensive browser testing of new features
  • Ensure a minimum of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance is met for websites and applications
  • Write unit tests (Enzyme, Jest) for Sass & JavaScript to ensure code functions properly
  • Participate in mentoring and conducting lessons for Apprentices
  • Conduct learning sessions and create materials for leveling up the rest of the Sparkbox team in HTML & CSS
  • Present in all-team meetings and client demos
  • Developed application using PHP Laravel framework that allows users to fill out an online application

Senior eCommerce Front End Web Developer @ DICK'S Sporting Goods

June 2016 - December 2017

  • Manage team of associate web developers on the day-to-day projects for the DICK'S Sporting Goods site
  • Conduct and manage code review sessions among the team to improve code quality
  • Work closely with the UI design team to produce engaging web experiences
  • Lead lunch & learns to teach the rest of our development team skills such as AngularJS
  • Conceptualize, plan and build web apps using HTML, Sass, JavaScript/jQuery, AngularJS and RESTful APIs to streamline processes
  • Worked on setting up Continuous Integration scripts for deployments
  • Work within the Management Center CMS tool and increase efficiency using this tool
  • Discuss technical capabilities the front-end dev team is able to produce to our stakeholders
  • Develop landing pages for multi-million dollar seasonal campaigns
  • Assisted in the development & UAT of a new platform for the DICK'S Sporting Goods site

eCommerce Front End Web Developer @ DICK'S Sporting Goods

May 2015 - June 2016

  • Conceptualize, plan and build web apps using HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and APIs to streamline processes
  • Build marketing sites for in-house brands to be pixel-perfect based off of designs
  • Maintain content for dickssportinggoods.com
  • Suggest and develop enhancements to current processes for the various DSG owned websites
  • Ensure browser compatibility for DSG websites all the way back to IE7

Front End Web Designer/Developer, Digital Commerce @ Giant Eagle

April 2013 - May 2015

  • Rebuilt entire website's front end using the inuit grid, Sass, HTML5 and CSS3
  • Plan, wireframe, design & develop new front end initiatives, including one-off promotional landing pages and online ordering programs
  • Helped plan, wireframe, design & build a mobile-friendly eCommerce site
  • Built responsive microsites using Bootstrap 3 and LESS
  • Work with back-end offshore developers on bugs and troubleshooting
  • Perform web updates & manage products among the different Content Management Systems (such as SiteCore & Episerver) for the various brands and departments
  • Design and develop responsive email campaigns from the ground up
  • Design and develop Facebook contests, sweepstakes and other applications
  • Led in-depth CMS training sessions to newer and less experienced users
  • Brainstorm ways to make current processes more efficient and investigate ways to keep websites current with competitors

Front End Web Developer @ LEVY MG

January 2012 - April 2013

  • Design/develop websites for a variety of clients and industries
  • Maintain existing websites and client relationships
  • Take educated risks by using new technologies
  • Design/develop email blasts
  • Interface with clients to efficiently market their industrial business online
  • Photo manipulation

Other Experience

Certifications

Speaking / Articles