# Aleksandra Bondzic

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Greater Chicago Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aleksandra

Full-stack engineer with a fondness for front-end development, 10+ years experience.  Extensively practiced in methodologies such as TDD, BDD, and pair programming.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer I @ Cars.com
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, IL
Learned Elixir and Phoenix to support the new full-stack MVC application that replaced the legacy cars.com.
Acted as a lead frontend engineer, provided guidance and feedback during development of the new Phoenix app.
Lead efforts to champion Accessibility & semantic HTML on application. Spread knowledge through presentations and code reviews.
Worked closely with product stakeholders and designers to shape stories and refine acceptance criteria.

### Software Engineer III @ Cars.com
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Chicago
Worked on frontend app for legacy cars.com using a mix of Javascript, Handlebars, and Angular I. Refactored Angular I components into Javascript & Handlebars. Completed significant upgrade from webpack v1 to v4.

### Front-End Engineer II @ Raise
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Worked on a new Front-End platform using Node.js and React.  Built routes that use server-side rendering and integrated Redux. Wrote unit tests in Jest and Enzyme to ensure 100% coverage.  Contributed to development on head tag management and integration of CSS Modules.   
Acted as a liaison for contracted Andela engineers, gathered requirements and stories for their projects, and onboarded them to the Rails 4 app 
Completed a CMS in Rails to handle creation of “shop” landing pages(e.g. raise.com/shop/chicago) for marketing campaign efforts.  Integrated with Redis for data storage.
Fixed bugs and provided technical support for the Rails 4 legacy app.

### Sr Software Engineer @ Enova International
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Extended the RESTful API for Rails 3 & 4 services in order to provide more customer and payment information from the legacy app.
Provided support to junior engineers and new employees. Paired with product owners to write stories and clarify acceptance criteria.

### Software Engineer @ Enova International
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
Provided development support for Rails legacy app used to handle financial products such as payday and installment loans.
Collaborate with Marketing, Finance, Analytics, IT, and Strategy & Operations to provide swift, concise, and profitable features while minimizing loss.

### Software Engineer @ ThoughtWorks
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Chicago
Consulted for clients including a Healthcare Education Company, Marketing and Sales Startup, Major Airline, and NGO.
Built two Ruby on Rails apps that provided assessments for Med students, and another that allowed users to create and manage mobile coupons.
Spearheaded efforts to create acceptance test suites using Rspec, Capybara, and Cucumber


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2006 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/a-bondzic

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Last updated: 2026-03-22