# Payton Lower

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/payton

I am a front-end leaning full-stack software engineer with a passion for creating beautiful and accessible
user interfaces. With over eight years of experience in the creative field before transitioning into software
engineering, I have a keen eye for visual detail which I apply to my development practice.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Stride
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ The Wanderlust Group
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
- Implemented a headless CMS (Contentful) into a Ruby on Rails monolithic application using React on the front end to empower the marketing department to own content creation.
- Utilized SEO best practices to improve organic search engine rankings.
- Drove growth and generated MQLs by strategically launching new marketing web pages.
- Spearheaded initiative to adopt agile best practices and improve project management efficiencies.
- Created comprehensive documentation for content authors and engineers regarding how to utilize and maintain Contentful.
- Supported a cross functional marketing team as their engineering resource.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dialexa, an IBM Company
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Built internal job tracking software for a large electrical utility company, increasing productivity and job accuracy resulting in millions of dollars saved for the client.
- Designed a role-based access control (RBAC) system for use in multiple locales.
- Collaborated with the back end team to plan RESTful APIs and connect them to the front end.
- Utilized ArcGIS to visualize dynamic job data on maps in several US regions.
- Reworked legacy table components in order to improve performance by up to 500%.
- Created internal job training documentation and mentored junior developers.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Sprinklr
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Portland, Oregon, United States
- Operated in a fast place environment with an international and fully remote team to maintain and expand our marketing site, resulting in exponential growth of MQLs and conversions.
- Utilized Contentful and GraphQL to provide content authors with well planned entry models, empowering them with the autonomy to author flexible pages.
- Owned the development lifecycle for projects including: a site wide rebrand, blog migration from Wordpress to Gatsby/Contentful, creation of a content hub driving 10,000+ organic visitors monthly.
- Mentored junior developers on front-end best practices, delegated tasks to team members, participated in code review, and kept an open door for pair-programming.
- Collaborated directly with the design team to build pixel perfect and responsive user interfaces.
- Migrated localized sites for 6 languages from subdomains to localized versions of the root domain.
- Lead a cross functional push to maintain WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards.
- Collaborated with SEO Strategists to ensure the marketing site maintains best practices, and raised the Ahrefs site health score from 16/100 to 97/100.

### Software Engineer @ Nike
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Beaverton, Oregon
- Collaborated closely with design teams to create a brand new design system for Nike.com.
- Spearheaded an icon library using best practices to handle inline SVGs. 
- Ensured that all components met WCAG 2.1 AA standards. 
- Worked closely with the globalization team to offer components to all supported geo locations. 
- Authored Storybook stories and extensive documentation for the component library. 
- Committed to 100% code coverage in Jest using React Testing Library for unit and snapshot tests. 
- Socialized the design system for other teams to ingest, provided support during adoption, and worked collaboratively to ensure the components APIs were intuitive and fit our consumers needs. 
- Maintained a separate styling repository in order to keep parity with styled components for teams that were unable to ingest components written with CSS in JS.

### Software Engineer @ Alchemy Code Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019


## Education
### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Printmaking
University of North Texas
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013

### Full-Stack Software Developer
Alchemy Code Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22