# Damian Lajara > Senior Front End Engineer | Frontend Developer | React | JavaScript | TypeScript Location: Orlando, Florida, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/damianlajara Solution-driven Senior Front End Engineer adept at contributing to highly collaborative work environments, finding solutions and determining customer satisfaction. Proven experience developing consumer and business-focused websites using HTML, CSS, Ruby and JavaScript. Built products for desktop and mobile meeting highest standards for web design, user experience, best practices and speed. Designed and developed web applications across multiple APIs, third-party integrations and databases. ## Work Experience ### Frontend Senior Software Engineer @ Proof Jan 2023 – Present The smarter way to serve legal documents Experience faster nationwide serve management, reliable servers, accurate skip tracing, and a transparent, trackable process. ### Senior Front End Engineer @ Onaroll Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Gamify Work. Supercharge Shifts. Celebrate Success. Text "GO" for a 32-second demo: (415) 480-7655. ### Senior Front End Engineer @ Demyst Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States External Data as a Service Demyst is an External Data Management Platform, providing data teams with the toolkit required to manage all their external data. We empower data teams to enable their business users by orchestrating at scale, tailored pipelines that provide trusted external data. Create Connectors to manage all upstream data sources, and deploy them where and how you need, with realtime data as a Data API and bulk data as a Data Share. ### Software Engineer @ Demyst Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area ### Software Engineer @ Yashi Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, NY Yashi integrates location focused technology with real-time bidding that allows the customers to bid based on auction, site, device and user data. Yashi operates a Demand-Side Platform that analyzes 40 billion impressions and delivers hundreds of millions of video ads every month ### Web Developer @ Unknown Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 ➤ Built, managed, maintained and updated web sites and web apps alike for multiple clients with modern and up-to-date frontend tools that best illustrates the client’s needs ranging from small non-profit organizations to early startups. ➤ Consulted with clients to outline website goals, illustrate current and potential problems that may arise depending on the architecture chosen, and guide them on choosing the most efficient and scalable solution for site functionality and training of staff members. ➤ Assisted clients with re-designing, implementing, and transitioning to a CMS in order to help them cut down on costs and fit the construction of the site in their budget as well as educate internal staff on using these new systems. ### Software Developer @ CipherHealth Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | 555 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018 ➤ Researched, called and negotiated with various email service providers in order to curate an exhaustive list with all Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) compliant email service providers which were used to select the main source of digital communication between various care providers and patients. ➤ Collaborated with other developers and internal staff in order to identify and alleviate numerous bugs and errors in software. ➤ Created ETL Ruby scripts to facilitate the process of comparing mongo and MySQL databases in order to create diff views that capture missing or obsolete fields which have to be either removed or updated. ➤ Improved performance on MongoDB queries based on system data captured through Datadog and Skylight. ➤ Used Markdown to style, update and provide new content for the FAQ’s site which compiled popular information about Cipher Health’s various products such as Orchid, View, Voice and Echo. ### Web Development Fellow @ The Flatiron School Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area The NYC Web Development Fellowship is an intensive training program designed to equip New Yorkers with the skills necessary to launch careers in web development. Provided by the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline and the Workforce Development Corporation in partnership with the Flatiron School, the 22-week program is provided free of cost to participants and includes a five-month on-campus training, a 12-week paid internship, and connection to jobs in technology. ### CUNY DOE Technology Support Intern @ NYC Department of Education Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | New York, NY ➤ Provided level one maintenance on the equipment in the main and Intermediate distribution frames such as routers, switches and hubs and ensured that they were all functioning properly ➤ Configured wired and wireless devices to access the DOE network by making sure the network structure such as VLAN, MAC address info and IP were correctly setup ➤ Coordinated with the CUNY IT help desk to ensure that all laptops, desktops, printers and wireless devices were in perfect working condition for students, teachers and faculty members ➤ Troubleshooted hardware and software problems on various operating systems such as Windows xp, Windows 7, and Mac OS X by pinging, backing up and restoring, Partitioning, re-imaging and ghosting the machines in compliance to the DOE policy standards ### Fighting Cardinal's Software Team Leader @ NASA's Sixth Annual Robotic Mining Competition Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ➤ Tested and reverse-engineered open-source communication applications to develop a clear understanding of how to create an efficient user interface in order to control the robot as safely as possible. ➤ Organized and led a team of 3 other software specialists by creating required protocols and guidelines. Proposed the recommended course of action to keep the team unified during the competition where we controlled the robot from a command center a few hundred feet away. ➤ Verified that there were no connectivity issues that would prohibit the robot from mining martian regolith as quickly and as efficiently as possible. ➤ Ensured that the hardware team, which consisted of 3 robotic specialists, had clear instructions from the command center in order to perform latency, actuator, tread, and connection checks. ➤ Successfully created an elegant user-interface with help from SuperDroid Robots that allowed our small team of 7, the ability to control the mounted camera, the 4 actuators, and even the direction the treads face - which ultimately make the robot move in that given direction. ➤ Created a backup option of how to connect to the robot via a Logitech gaming controller just in case the user-interface that ran on a windows computer did not work as expected. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ City University of New York, York College Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Jamaica, NY ➤ Developed an understanding of the structure of Mobility First, a future Internet architecture API that will re-design the current IP Layer, which will result in better support for mobile devices by omitting the need for gateways and overlays. ➤ Coordinated with a team of 10 other students and teachers to implement various projects using Java as well as the WIFI-Direct and Android API’s in order to further my android application development skills, which will aid in the process of using the Mobility First API to enable social networking in challenged disconnected networks. ➤ Built and designed a blog using wordpress, an open source content management system (CMS), which contains my progress and thoughts as well as my research report papers about the internet architecture of Mobility First ## Education ### Computer Science CUNY York College Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Web Development Flatiron School Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/damianlajara - Website: http://damianlajara.com - Website: http://damianlajara.wordpress.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/damianlajara JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/damianlajara/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22