Resume
Robert Lester
Frontend Software Engineer
Innovative and detail-oriented Frontend Software Engineer with extensive experience building web applications using React, Next.js, and TypeScript. Skilled in creating unified design systems, reusable component libraries, and AI-assisted engineering workflows that keep code clean and scalable. Adept at collaborating across teams to ship reliable, user-focused software that improves performance and engagement.
Experience
Lead Frontend Software Engineer
Perfected Claims
October 2025 – October 2026
- Built a unified design system and component library with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS for internal and external apps, shipping it into new internal products as they launched.
- Took over frontend lead from an outside agency on We Are Erin (Canary), a confidential nationwide platform built with Erin Brockovich's team for reporting corporate and environmental harm, and delivered the working prototype over a six-to-seven-month build.
- Led the frontend rebuild of an internal tort management system for handling cases, documents, claimant data, and users, taking the platform to near-beta.
- Helped lead the adoption of AI workflows across the engineering team to automate development tasks, speed up code reviews, and ship 10x to 20x more work while keeping code quality high and maintainable.
Frontend Software Engineer
Trazi
August 2024 – October 2025
- Supported and maintained seven production websites built with Vue.js and Nuxt.js, delivering bug fixes and new features to improve user experience and site performance.
- Developed and optimized responsive frontend components using Vue, Nuxt, and SCSS, ensuring consistency across devices and browsers.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and roll out feature updates in a fast-paced Agile environment.
- Assisted in extending and maintaining a custom CMS built with Vue, implementing new functionality and resolving bugs to enhance content management, billing, and customer data workflows for all owned production websites.
Senior Software Engineer
Fund That Flip/Upright
November 2021 – June 2024
- Created and implemented a global UI component library and design system using React, Tailwind CSS, and Storybook based on Figma design files.
- Developed CI/CD workflows and commit pre-hooks to automate coding standards, testing, and versioned releases that resulted in an increase in code readability and productivity.
- Refactored and built a complex marketing website with a documented style guide, integrating with the business applications ecosystem using Webflow, React, AWS, and Figma.
- Developed a many-to-many rollover system for users to manage investments effortlessly that increased user engagement by 40%.
- Implemented an end-to-end OIDC OAuth authentication and onboarding system across multiple user-facing applications that increased user engagement and sign-ups by 25%.
- Established testing and coding standards, improving product reliability and team efficiency, resulting in faster feature development and overall better user experience.
Digital UX/UI Designer & Developer
Launch That (Asbestos.com)
October 2019 – November 2021
- Created and implemented a standardized brand guide and design system for Asbestos.com.
- Created and implemented web designs and pages to help increase web traffic and conversion rates.
- Created and implemented a new design style that assisted in increasing web traffic and click rates by over 100%.
- Implemented a new company-wide design process using Figma (cloud-based design application) that allowed for increased visibility, productivity, and efficiency on how web pages are designed, developed, and reviewed.
- Developed new inline content CTAs, increasing click-through rates by over 150% and conversions by over 16%.
Application Developer & Designer
Lunar/Launch That
October 2017 – October 2019
- Created and implemented a global design system that transformed into a UI component library using React.
- Owned the design and UI/UX of all applications and digital assets for the company.
- Continuously evolved the development process through a reinforced software development lifecycle (CI/CD).
- Assisted with designing and developing several enterprise-level applications from idea to public release:
- Uplink - sales process text and web messaging solution that auto-synced with Salesforce.
- TicketBeam - ticketing management system that auto-synced all of the sales data to a tracking tool in Salesforce.
- Created and defined best practices for coding, unit testing, and source control.
- Experience using JIRA to keep track of tickets and tasks through a weekly sprint cycle.
- Worked with TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Redux, Apollo, Jest, Enzyme, SASS, GraphQL, MobX, and Aphrodite.
- Used design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Sketch, and InVision Studio.
Project Manager
Intelity
March 2017 – October 2017
- Used all available business resources to ensure technical issues were addressed and resolved.
- Managed customer implementation processes, working with analysts, designers, and engineers to resolve blockers.
- Produced detailed user stories and facilitated agile sprints using JIRA.
- Ensured high-quality deliverables and technical issue resolution.
Project Assistant
Walt Disney World
November 2014 – March 2017
- Partnered with various teams to implement new applications at WDW resorts.
- Conducted user acceptance testing and provided debugging, testing, and implementation support.
- Created strategic reporting solutions and testing execution summaries.
- Triaged technical issues impacting the guest and cast experience related to MyMagic+ (Disney Software).
Skills
- Languages
- TypeScript / JavaScript / Node · CSS / SASS · HTML
- Frameworks & libraries
- React · Redux · Next.js · Vue · Nuxt · Tailwind · Material UI · Jest · RTL · Firebase · Vite · Storybook · AWS · GraphQL
- DevOps & AI tooling
- GitHub Actions · Terraform · AWS CDK · AI-assisted development and review workflows
- Design tools
- Figma · Sketch · Adobe Creative Suite · Webflow
Education
Full Stack Web Development Certificate
University of Central Florida
2017
Associate in Arts
Cleveland Community College
2012