Highly skilled Front-end Software Engineer in the Los Angeles area with have 5+ years of experience building high-performance, user-centric web applications. I have built projects from scratch using a range of modern frameworks (React, Preact, Vue, NextJS) and technologies (Typescript, JSX, Styled components).

2023 — NowCover GeniusSoftware Engineer II, Frontend

2023 — Now

Remote

Created a brand new system of building and deploying insurance panels to partners

Optimized bundle sizes for optimal network requests and speeds

Created a new CSS styling framework for our custom elements

Built embedded insurance panels using Preact, Typescript, and Vite

2022 — 2023Cover GeniusSoftware Engineer I, Frontend

2022 — 2023

Remote

Cover Genius is the insurtech for embedded insurance that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Skyscanner and Descartes ShipRush. We’re also available on eBay, Wayfair, Tile and, SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Cover Genius’ vision is to protect all the customers of the world’s largest online companies through XCover, an award-winning global distribution platform for any line of insurance or warranty, and XClaim, an API for instant payment of approved claims that delivers an NPS of +65, a result that has been independently recognized as the highest for any insurance company globally.

Cover Genius and partners co-create solutions that embed protection, aided by Cover Genius’ licenses in 60+ countries & all 50 US States.

If interested in learning more about Cover Genius and our technologies, visit https://www.covergenius.com.

If interested in joining the Cover Genius team, visit our Careers page https://www.covergenius.com/careers/

2021 — 2022Mercury InsuranceJunior Frontend Developer

2021 — 2022

Implemented user data tracking for analytics in Mercury’s main insurance writing application

Created custom framework in Google Tag Manager with JavaScript to meet implementation requirements

Developed, tested, and deployed polls and guides for users, using Pendo, JavaScript, HTML and SCSS

Styled backend templates to match UI mockups and created logic to handle desired flows and features

2016 — 2021UnknownIndependent Software Developer

2016 — 2021

Greater Los Angeles Area

I love to build things. Here are a few examples of what I've made so far:

ACTnow Foundation - A nonprofit created with the purpose of providing COVID-19 test kits to those in need

Angular based web project using PayPal APIs for payments, and ShipBob APIs for inventory and shipping

Utilized TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and used Github for version control and Continuous Integration

Collaborated with remote teams on the architecture, design, and implementation of features for the website

Created a reactive questionnaire with unidirectional dataflow to provide free test kits to those in need

The ArQive - A social media platform for the LGBTQ+ community

I am the GitHub master for this ongoing project, as well as working on the Django-Rest and ReactJS teams

Created a local development environment for team members to collaborate on through GitHub

Developed a deployment pipeline to preserve existing features and test new features before production builds

Currently creating a badge system to encourage user participation using JavaScript FE and Django BE

Reddit Bots - Bots programmed in Python using the PRAW Reddit API

Word Counter: Generates graphics to represent trends in conversation based on word frequencies

Wikipedia Explainer: Provides Wikipedia articles in the comment section of hot posts to provide factual background to the OP story

Check out my Github: https://github.com/balacarter

2020 — 2020Act Now FoundationJunior Web Developer

2020 — 2020

San Francisco Bay Area

ACTnow is a nonprofit created with the purpose of providing COVID-19 test kits to those in need. I worked with a remote development team to design and deploy an Angular web app with an online store and capabilities for providing free test kits.

I collaborated with senior developers to implement payments with PayPal APIs, inventory management using ShipBob, and emailing list through sendgrid.

One of my roles was to create a form for users to request free test kits. I designed and implemented a reactive form using DOM events and unidirectional data flow to create a request object and send it to our backend.

I created email templates to be sent to users through different points of the ordering process.

I redesigned the sites layout for a more intuitive flow as well as creating CSS for the mobile website.

Education

2018 — 2021

California State University, Los Angeles

Bachelor of Science - BS

2018 — 2021

2016 — 2018

Pasadena City College

General Ed

2016 — 2018

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS

General Ed