# Roberto Varela

> Senior Front-End Engineer | DISCO | Ex-Amazon

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/robertovarela

Senior front-end engineer with a passion for UI/ UX, scaling platforms, and creating intuitive and dynamic user experiences, leveraging AI tools to accelerate development and innovation.

Specializing in the following technologies:

Javascript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Redux, Apollo, REST API, GraphQL, Cypress, VanillaJS, CSS, SCSS, HTML, Git, MetaMask, Ethers.js

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II, UI @ DISCO
Jan 2024 – Present | Austin, TX
• Modernized front-end architecture using React and TypeScript, improving scalability and developer velocity.
• Resolved 100% of critical security vulnerabilities in the search-ui library, automated 42% of tests with Cypress reducing manual QA effort, and prototyped an AI-powered natural language search tool adopted internally.

### Front-End Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Austin, TX
• Led development of the N-Tier Visibility feature using React and TypeScript, enabling multi-tier forecasting for enterprise customers at global scale.
• Scaled the Galaxy Design System to the complexity of AWS Supply Chain, standardizing reusable UI components across the engineering organization.

### Front-End Engineer @ ShipStation
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Austin, TX
• Optimized key features across ShipStation's shipping platform, delivering improvements that impacted a merchant base of 100K+ e-commerce businesses.

### Front-End Engineer @ Ping Identity
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
• Delivered a high-performance directory with dynamic forms, and enterprise-grade error handling used by Ping Identity's global customer base.

### Front-End Engineer @ Wellsmith
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
» Worked with designers, product owners, and backend developers in an agile environment to turn ideas and mockups into a production-ready web application.

### Front-End Engineer @ Arrive Logistics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
• Built internal tooling that supported 2x revenue growth and a top-50 U.S. freight brokerage ranking during a critical scaling period.

### Technical Success Manager @ Bazaarvoice
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
• Consulted with enterprise clients (from marketing managers to IT/development engineers) to resolve and facilitate necessary bug and code changes. This improved my ability to efficiently communicate outside of an engineering team.


## Education
### Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Finance and Financial Management Services
Texas McCombs School of Business

### Full Stack Web Developer
Galvanize


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rvarela11
- Website: http://www.robertvarela.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29