Senior Software Engineer, HeadLight
2016 to now · Seattle, hybrid and remote
A SaaS platform that state transportation departments, engineering firms and materials labs use to manage transportation and bridge construction.
- Created the platform’s design system in 2023 and its in-house component library in 2024, and remain the main contributor to both.
- Planned and led the platform-wide replacement of a third-party select library, under a no-lost-features rule. I built the final phase, 580 fields on 107 forms, as one guarded switch-over, backed by parity tests and a sweep of 125 real documents.
- Built the platform’s reference form on my own initiative: a working directory of every input type and form feature. Engineering, QA, customer experience and sales now use it to test, check behavior and demo features before they ship.
- Cut load time on that reference form by about 75%, and cut the data every form downloads by about 4x on first open and over 30x after. Moved the daily-report PDFs to a new engine that renders photo-heavy reports about 6x faster.
- Created the forms test suite, now about 1,925 tests, and delivered a tiered accessibility pass: contrast, read-only states, and error messages tied to their fields.
- Coach developers and customer-experience staff on building forms from configuration, teaching from the reference forms. They now build new form themes on their own.