Jose L Pimienta | Front-end Architect

Staff Software Engineer - Front-end Architect
at NAX Group · https://naxgrp.com ↗

March 2023 - Present

• Engineered a cutting-edge studio application that leverages AI to assist in designing and configuring software architecture models, offering intelligent suggestions for classes, fields, and other system design elements, streamlining project kick-offs.
• Developed advanced code generation tools to significantly enhance the developer experience, driving widespread adoption of the software platform across the organization.
• Architected and implemented robust Front-end architectures for both web and mobile applications, utilizing React, React Native, and NextJS to ensure scalability, performance, and responsiveness.
• Collaborated closely with the design team to create a comprehensive design system, unifying the visual and functional consistency across all platform applications.
• Designed and implemented automated testing strategies for Front-end applications, ensuring high-quality, reliable, and maintainable codebases.
• Mentored and guided engineers in best practices, fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and improvement within the development team.
• Developed multiple design system implementations using React UI components, built from a monorepo that supports an unlimited number of products, featuring both primitive and domain-specific components tailored to product requirements.

Staff Front-End Software Engineer
at Nirvana Money

July 2021 - February-2023

Developed and launched a mobile-first cash (checking/savings) + credit card banking application in a year:

• Implemented Developer Experience (DX) across the organization by:
• Creating the Nirvana Design System (components, design tokens, utilities)
• Creating a CLI tool that made the integration between Figma and the React code base a breeze; with a single command.
• Integrating unit/integration test harness allowing engineers visibility into code improvements that could be made.
• Adopting the monorepo pattern to increase code sharing, testing, distribution, and engineering productivity.
• Spearheaded a cross-team QA/DEV Engineering initiative to incorporate Cypress E2E test framework for our application; this framework covered all our features for reliable deployments. KPI: 90% automated code coverage.
• Introduced an accessibility reporting tool that provided insights into our application's accessibility compliance violations; KPI: 95% Lighthouse (AXE) compliance rating.
• Created Zendesk plugins apps using ReactJS; implemented automated deployment pipeline to deploy the plugin app to Zendesk
• Incorporated a process to provide stakeholders (QA/Senior Management) details on release changes using an automated GitLab pipeline.
• Introduced and implemented the micro front-end architecture by using Webpack Module Federation improving the application's reliability and deployment.

Senior Front-End Software Engineer
at Run Buggy · https://runbuggy.com ↗

August 2020 - July 2021

• Implemented features for a transportation management application using VueJS, Material Design, and REST APIs.

UI Architect/Senior Front-End Software Engineer
at QiO Technologies · https://qio.io ↗

June 2018 - July 2020

• Designed, architected, and lead the implementation of the data visualization framework to create configuration-driven suite of applications using Angular, TypeScript, D3, Sass, and CSS Variables.
• Designed and implemented the proof of concept application to track and analyze the risk profiles of self-driving cars using Angular, SVG, and NodeJS.

Team Lead/Senior Front-End Software Engineer
at Vertiv Co · https://vertiv.com/ ↗

February 2016 - June 2018

• Lead the team that built the UI architecture for the Trellis Application Framework allowing the company to speed up the delivery and refactoring of their core application to market.