18 months • Independent contributor collaborating with 5+ engineers
AI Cloud Platform
Senior Frontend Engineer, managing 2 embedded engineers
Worked across a cloud infrastructure company's marketing site, internal tooling, and design system, in a high-security environment with restricted API access. Built a mock API server so contractors could develop against real schemas without live credentials, shipped the marketing site in Astro, and grew the Storybook component library.
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The Challenge
A cloud infrastructure company needed to modernize its marketing site, internal tools, and development workflows, in a high-security, asynchronous-first environment with restricted API access.
High-security environment with restricted API access for contractors
Asynchronous-first global team across time zones
Marketing site and internal tools needed modernizing
Design system needed to mature and align with a mid-flight rebrand
Balancing speed with security in development workflows
Strategic Approach
Split time across marketing website development, secure internal tooling, and design system work, adapting each to the security constraints of the environment.
Marketing Website & Brand Development
Built the marketing website and supported a company-wide rebrand
Delivered production-ready marketing website in 2-3 week timeline using Astro
Picked up Astro for static site generation and responsive design
Updated the site and components to match the new brand
Kept the build simple enough to extend for future iterations
Secure Development & Design System
Built internal tools around mock APIs and grew the design system
Built mock API server using Swagger docs for secure contractor development
Created internal admin dashboard for infrastructure monitoring without API access
Built out the component library in Storybook
Let contractors ship without direct access to production APIs
Business Impact
2-3 week marketing website delivery
Launch Speed
Lighthouse 100s across the board on the marketing site
Performance
Mock API server built from Swagger docs
Contractor Workflow
Component library built out in Storybook
Design System
Mentored 2+ embedded engineers
Team
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