# Vernon Mensah

> Senior Software Engineer @ Collage Group | Front-end Development, React, React Native

Location: Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vernonmensah

For four years, I have built scalable & responsive applications for startups using React & React Native. Due to my help wherever I can attitude I have learned and used back-end technologies such as GraphQL to support my team.

Languages/Frameworks: HTML/CSS/JavaScript, SASS, React, React Native, NextJS, Typescript, Redux, Node/Express     
Tools:  Git, MongoDB, Postgres, Webpack, Agile, Scrum, Atlassian/Jira, Stripe, AWS

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Collage Group
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Collage Group
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Bethesda, Maryland, United States

### Full Stack Engineer @ Hearth
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Worked on a fintech SaaS platform providing sales tools to home improvement contractors.

• Developed new UI flow to revise existing invoices which reduced creation time by 100% using React and React Native
• Developed a new customer relationship management feature that was requested by over 5,000 contractors using React and React Native
• Improved the development process by adding unit tests to payment flows and invoices using Jest, creating documentation for React Native environment setup, and developing an on-call troubleshooting guide for invoices
• Increased coding productivity by implementing an automatic code formatter, Prettier, to reduce pull request comments by half and held weekly debugging sessions to unblock engineers on React Native issues

### Front End Developer @ IQ Solutions
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Worked on Alzheimers.gov, a federal government website managed by NIH, NIA, and HHS.

• Implemented custom Spanish translation for 20,000 monthly Spanish site visitors by modularizing the rendering of translated articles from Drupal CMS and NIH as well as translated button and menu values using Next.js and GraphQL 
• Utilized sprint planning and Jira to collaborate and prioritize UI bugs among developers and streamlined onboarding by creating documentation of Next.js setup and business logic

### Software Engineer @ FastRope Labs
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Worked as a contractor to build a tuition assistance program for employers and universities.

• Led development of a dashboard in under 3 weeks by coordinating with back-end developers, implementing React and Chart.js to display usage and impact of tuition assistance
• Enforced style guides and color themes through client’s wireframes and design docs hosted on Invision

### Front End Developer @ Compound
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Worked on a venue management platform with online booking, payments, and account management features.

• Modernized the entire front end codebase to clean up bloated code and outdated packages by converting HTML and JQuery code to React, Redux, and SASS for a more maintainable and sustainable app
• Interviewed multiple users to understand user interaction and used React & SASS to fix the web app usability
• Researched and implemented Hotjar, a user behavior visualizer, to automate the collection of UI/UX feedback

### Software Engineer @ Remine
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Fairfax, VA
Worked on a real estate intelligence platform; a data-driven SASS product with search features and predictive analytics.

• Engineered solutions to capture subscription tax using Stripe for $2,000,000 in annual revenue to abide by state law
Improved app by tripling frame rates on frequently used pages by identifying & mitigating lag issues with React Dev Tools 
• Created a note-taking tool using React, Express, and SQL for real estate agent’s properties; within less than a month over 10,000 notes were created by users


## Education
### Associate of Science - AS in Computer Science
Prince George's Community College
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Engineering Immersion
Thinkful
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vernonmensah
- GitHub: https://github.com/alderr

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Last updated: 2026-03-22