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Parth Narielwala

Austin

Summary

Experienced in end-to-end software development with fierce passion about the user experience and user interface design. Love working with others to build a free-flowing and robust solution and deliver the best experience to the users.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

[Remote] Front End Consultant

Dope Security
06.2023 - Current
  • Advised front-end engineers overseas on ways to improve the performance and architecture of the client admin tool
  • Pushed to using cutting edge technologies to optimize caching on the front-end to create a blazing fast user experience and minimize loading screens
  • Traveled off-site to host workshops to foster innovation and collaboration to further improve the application

Senior Front End Engineer - Team Lead

Everly Health
09.2021 - Current
  • Led many front-end development projects from inception to completion, resulting in successful launches of various key features. Some of these important features include launching new business revenue streams with Vitamin products and the entire Telehealth module.
  • Initiated and led front-end "guild" meetings to gather other front-end engineers and discuss ways to improve the applications and processes.
  • Collaborated closely with design and product to develop a design system from scratch using Chakra UI, Storybook, and Chromatic.
  • Integrated unit testing patterns with React Testing Library and MSW to rethink how we see testing React code in a progressive manner

Senior Front End Engineer

Nordstrom Trunk Club
10.2019 - Current
  • Helped direct the improvement of customer onboarding flow to be reusable, readily updateable, and extendable - both from the front end and back end aspects of the project
  • Led the use of a content management platform to improve the process of managing seasonal marketing and product information that gets displayed to the member
  • Led the development and transition to the use of a new landing page for logged in customers backed by GraphQL, grid design, lazy loading, and CMS driven components
  • Led the development on the creation of the new navigation menu for the entire application. After doing so, customers can now access all feature entry points from anywhere in the application
  • Developed a Grid React component based on Styled System/Rebass components that is attached to the theme spacing configuration to allow for developer to follow the Grid system and maintain a clean UI
  • Introduced the use of skeleton loading pattern to allow for the UI to indicate when a page or component is loading and the shape it will take once it's finished loading
  • Improved documentation with existing readme files without having to recreate them and hosted them for better visibility and for the developers to be able to search through them
  • Created a custom Typescript codegen to generate types for data that is returned from our CMS integration
  • Updated the analytics integration to be more configurable and enable the feature to allow customers to opt out

Front End Engineer

Nordstrom Trunk Club
09.2017 - 10.2019
  • Re-architected the entire customer facing frontend app
  • Lead the developer proposed initiative to combine 5 micro-frontend apps into a single SPA. This led to better performance across routes, design consistencies, and code reusability to implement DRY principles
  • Compiled analytics and presented this information to the entire company, including upper management to show the cost/benefits of this initiative
  • Brought the source code dependencies up to date which involved heavy refactoring and reorganization as well as creating tickets to provide visibility so that other engineers could help contribute
  • Lead and implemented 10+ high visible frontend features
  • Collaborated with backend and devops engineers for the release of new applications and new api endpoints to make available to frontend clients
  • Wrote tech briefs describing the work that would need to be done for large features, both by frontend and backend. Then transcribed this work into JIRA tickets for engineers to pull into their workload and for product and management to keep track of the progress
  • Researched new innovative technologies and patters that improved the business as well as developer satisfaction and productivity
  • Shared this knowledge with the team as well as other frontend teams which led to several adopted best practices throughout the company
  • Paired and mentored several senior and junior engineers as well as a summer intern
  • Shared knowledge to bring engineers up-to-speed on many adopted best practices that the frontend developer community acknowledges
  • Bridged communication gaps between developers and other areas of the business (product, design, marketing, etc) for many high impact features

Front End Engineer

Enablon
05.2016 - 09.2017
  • Worked on key navigational features that allowed users to seamlessly move through distant pages in the entire suite
  • Contributed many important UI elements to the UI framework to allow for full suite consistency
  • Implemented various clean, user-friendly features using HTML/CSS/LESS/JS/TypeScript
  • Added UI elements that can be created and rendered in C#/.NET

Software Engineer

Enablon
03.2013 - 05.2016
  • Work on Environmental applications within the well renown suite of Enablon solutions including Environmental, Waste, Process Hazard Analysis, and Management of Change
  • Absorb new business value ideas in the Sustainability market and formulate them into efficient algorithms and features
  • Plan and lead the management of the team’s product backlog
  • Implement Agile methodology for the team to work efficiently and complete stories on time and fulfill release commitments

Education

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
12.2012

Skills

  • Javascript/ES6, HTML, CSS
  • Typescript, Ruby
  • React, Redux, React Router, Webpack, Vite, Babel
  • GraphQL, RestAPI
  • SASS, LESS, CSS-in-JS, CSS modules, styled-components, emotion-js, styled-system, Chakra UI, Tailwind
  • Storybook, Chromatic, Cypress, Playwright
  • Yarn, NPM, NodeJS, Git, Jest, Vitest, react-testing-library
  • CircleCI, Gitlab CI, Renovate
  • Agile Scrum Development Methodology
  • Bootstrap, Semantic UI, Google Material Design, Grid Design
  • React Native, React Navigation, Expo

Hobbies

  • For the past 6 years, I have been taking hip-hop dance classes and recently started teaching! I've been in a few performances and one Disney+ TV show
  • Love playing any kind of sports but mostly basketball, football, table tennis, and pickleball
  • Avid traveler to different countries to experience different cultures

Timeline

[Remote] Front End Consultant

Dope Security
06.2023 - Current

Senior Front End Engineer - Team Lead

Everly Health
09.2021 - Current

Senior Front End Engineer

Nordstrom Trunk Club
10.2019 - Current

Front End Engineer

Nordstrom Trunk Club
09.2017 - 10.2019

Front End Engineer

Enablon
05.2016 - 09.2017

Software Engineer

Enablon
03.2013 - 05.2016

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Parth Narielwala