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👨💻 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 👉 https://www.andymerskin.com UX & Usability | Design Systems | Front-end SDLC | Full-Stack | TypeScript | React | Node.js | Animation & Motion | Data Viz | REST/RPC | Agentic AI ⚡️ Career Highlights • 20+ Years combined experience in Web / Product Design and Engineering • Won "Do The Right Thing" award at Living Security for Navigating Tricky Product Stakeholder Feedback • Won "Engineer of the Quarter" at CyberGRX for successfully Coordinating Team on Custom MFA Solution • Mentored 15+ Engineers & UI Designers, conducting frequent Design & Code Reviews, Elevating Standards • Cut the need for additional Design Iteration Cycles ~80% during engineering implementation phases • Reduced Front-end Cycle Time ~50% adopting TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and TanStack Libraries • Reduced Build Times ~70% adopting Vite build tooling in multiple codebases • Implemented Platform-Wide MFA, securing 100% of user accounts & meeting Enterprise Compliance • Designed & built UI & Data Contracts for Global Filtering System, leading to widespread praise from customers • Designed & built Workflow Orchestration UI, enabling automation for 200+ customer SaaS product • Created in-house Prototyping Framework for 5+ monolithic design contracts, with limited cloud options • Built open-source Electron app to Compile Sprites for 50+ person design & ads teams, saving hours on each ad • Wrote open-source Client-side Collection Filtering Library Spotr, reducing dev time ~80% for common use cases • Modernized Twin.Macro codebase to Tailwind v4 with exceptional accuracy for AI-readiness 📚 Key Skills • Tech Lead – Mentored 15+ engineers & designers driving code & design quality • Cross-Functional Leadership – Partnered with Product & Design to align vision, scope, and roadmap delivery • Front-end Architecture – Defined SDLC, code standards, and scalability for rapidly evolving products • Full-Stack – Built lightweight REST APIs & RPCs tying data contracts to user interfaces • CI / CD – Promoted E2E test coverage, established & maintained checks + deployments to production • Design Systems – Built custom design systems & component libraries from the ground up • Animation & Motion – Used CSS transitions & GSAP for rich interactive experiences • UX & Usability – Identified gaps & side effects in UIs with high focus on user needs and common misses • Design Consultation – Provided feedback addressing quick needs & aligning to existing patterns • B2B SaaS Mindset – Customer-focused product design & development in startup environments
End-to-end project planning, UX/UI design, UI engineering & architecture, and technical lead for all things Front-end Development on Living Security's Unify project. • Led front-end architecture for Unify product, driving adoption of Tailwind, TypeScript, and React Query → achieved ~50% reduction in development time. • Championed modern architecture standards that inspired cross-project adoption and positioned the team to attract top-tier, bleeding-edge talent. • Spearheaded cross-team collaboration, proactively aligning with engineers on new tech stack and leading complex, multi-discipline epic implementations. • Owned autonomous planning, documentation, and delivery of front-end work streams alongside Product team, while mentoring team members and conducting technical interviews. • Delivered high-quality feature design, from initial sketches through production — consistently exceeding expectations with minimal bugs, a strong usability focus, and comprehensive architectural + API documentation. • Used modern AI tooling to help drive further engineering efficiency as our team added new features to Unify and supported customer-facing requests. • Helped implement AI-focused features to modernize our product capabilities and align with the industry.
• Planned, coordinated, and led the front-end development process for several Epics of work, including adding Multi-factor Authentication to our Platform. • Researched and implemented cutting-edge front-end technologies to modernize and improve our architecture and DX, including the wonderful Vite build tool chain, and Tailwind CSS, leading to increased speed and confidence in delivering code. • Made significant additions and improvements to our design system, which serves as the basis for all things UI design and a common front-end toolset tailored to CyberGRX's needs. Created beautiful documentation. • Provided consulting, guidance, and decision-making around key design efforts in collaboration with our UX design team and other UX/UI-savvy engineers for both: net new work, and maintaining legacy systems to ensure we followed a loose set of standards. • Trained and assisted junior engineers and interns alike in all things front-end engineering, from teaching core principles in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the DOM, to propagating mature patterns for React and our supporting libraries.
• Create frameworks, tools, and resources to improve and streamline our development processes. • Help make key architectural decisions surrounding the front-end technologies our company uses. • Train and assist teams of developers in using the latest and greatest front-end tools and frameworks. • Provide visual design and usability expertise as we refine our best practices company-wide. • Experience with Vue.js/Vuex, Svelte, React, Jenkins, Caddy, Docker. • Experience working in an agile environment using Jira, and Gitflow on BitBucket to organize and streamline our team's workflow. Highlights • Lead the design initiative around our company's in-house tooling, resources, and design system. • Helped create a set of development frameworks to increase our development teams' time to market and provided a foundation of best practices to tighten up our final delivery to our clients.
• Conduct and make sense of stakeholder interviews and user research. • Create wireframes and visual designs for complex retail and institutional investing/market data applications for the responsive web. • Develop interactive prototypes using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Vue.js, Angular). Highlights: • Lead the visual design process and successfully implemented a strong visual language for several large enterprise applications, helping establish lasting client relationships, earning future business with them. • Experimented with and built a less explored way to create large, nonlinear interactive prototypes for demonstrating design ideas using the web stack, leading to the creation of an up and coming open-source prototyping tool. • Created internal tools to enhance our design team's capabilities.
• Work with small businesses and non-profit organizations to develop a digital strategy to market their services and build connections with their communities. • Plan and organize information architecture, sitemaps, and strategies. • Create wireframes and visual design compositions for the web. • Plan, develop, and implement websites using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. • Experience with Vue.js, AngularJS, WordPress, and REST API services. • Experience setting up domain and hosting services, and deploying via FTP, Github Pages, and divshot. • Produce educational materials for content management, and other website management processes specific to client needs.
Provided personalized and affordable IT services to Cheyenne, WY and Lakewood, CO residents. • Troubleshoot problems with Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8, as well as Mac OS X. • Experience building personal desktop computers. • Research, find, and replace PC parts. • Provide education materials and personalized tutoring on software, hardware, and general computing. • Maintain and optimize system performance. • Strong problem-solving skills—if I'm not sure, I'll find out.