# Alex Frolov

> UI Software Engineer at Zazzle Inc.

Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexfrolov

## Work Experience
### UI Software Engineer @ Zazzle
Jan 2020 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States

### UI Software Engineering Intern @ Zazzle
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Redwood City, California, United States
• Developed new UI components in React, Redux, and Sagas for public-facing online
shopping websites, updating them with a modernized, user-friendlier experience
• Authored 4 distinct pages including user profile homepages, product reviews,
partner domain registration, and product news, for both public and private views
• Overhauled a multi-million annual visitor marketplace page to use modern
frameworks, along with new features, faster performance, and a cleaner UX
• Developed internal tools for a non-developer audience to help validate and correct
marketplace products, fixing customer issues in a rapid and nonintrusive way
• Refactored middle-tier codebase to improve serialization of data objects, increasing
website performance by over 10%
• Worked together with a team of 4 to rapidly develop an in-house chat messaging
solution for customers, successfully in time for a critical holiday deadline
• Redesigned existing form input component functionality to be compliant with ARIA
standards, improving the overall website accessibility
• Retired a prolific legacy feature from the website with zero performance footprint
to site functionality, build, and runtime, streamlining the user experience

### Web Engineer @ Focal Systems, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Oakville, Ontario / Millbrae, California
• Developed new Angular components and NodeJS functionality for the improvement of the company’s internal systems and web platforms for major global retail outlets
• Rapidly designed, implemented, and iterated upon brand new platform features over the span of one week to help secure a multi-million dollar international client
• Migrated static dashboards to a mobile-friendly format, improving compatibility with client technology and usability for company field operatives
• Created global style guides and Sass stylesheets to deliver a more consistent user experience across dashboards and clean up 15+ stale files from codebase
• Worked directly with operations and infrastructure teams to iteratively deliver multiple new and improved web tools for their use, increasing task efficiency

### Full Stack Developer @ StackAdapt
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area
•	Developed new client-focused features and functionality for the company software platform, designing both user-facing webpages and backend structure
•	Worked with the Ruby on Rails framework to develop modular web applications
•	Extended web component functionality for file handling and form interactions using React.js and ES6 practices, improving platform usability for clients
•	Programmed new modules for a Golang backend, synchronizing Aerospike database with visual frontend as part of new codebase functionality
•	Researched and wrote MySQL data queries for product and business teams, assisting with the development of new platform features
•	Worked in an Agile environment to ensure continuous delivery of objectives

### Web Application Developer @ Kenna
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mississauga, Ontario
• Designed robust, dynamic and user-friendly front-end webpages for the satisfaction of a variety of company clients
• Implemented modifications to product profiles, campaign sites and secure services using HTML5, jQuery and LotusNotes
• Developed full stack functionality for displaying geographic regions on a mapping webpage for an agricultural client
• Researched and applied the use of external software, QGiS and GRASS GIS to create data from client specifications
• Created SQL backend and middleware agent to represent the data in a visually appealing format on the frontend
• Assisted with migrating existing static webpages to a dynamic responsive format, reducing the expected deployment time
• Monitored production web logs on a daily basis, identifying and helping fix any errors that arose, improving user experience
• Wrote detailed documentation outlining company and project processes to speed up future employee deployment

### Application Developer @ CIBC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Toronto, Canada Area
•	Developed automation applications and supported existing software, improving the company backend systems
•	Self-started and completed a Java application named the “Thunderhead Resource Verification App” in a team of three
•	 Automated several processes involved in pushing Java EE projects to production, reducing process complexity
•	 Implemented JSwing GUIs, XML and .zip file processing, object-oriented programming
•	Created a .csv file parsing program to automate spreadsheet comparisons, expediting the manual process
•	Wrote automation scripts using ANT and WLST, simplifying Java EAR deployment
•	 Updated and verified accuracy of various company data sheets, ensuring they follow appropriate standards

### Swim Instructor and Lifeguard @ YMCA of Oakville
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Oakville,Ontario
•	Personally taught children ages 3 to 14 lifetime swimming skills; maintained squad communication to ensure patron safety


## Education
### Bachelor of Computer Science ( BCS) in Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020

### Abbey Park High School, Oakville, ON
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexei-frolov

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Last updated: 2026-03-29