Sandra Quiles - Lead User Interface Engineer, Silverica

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Work Background

TBDLead User Interface Frontend Engineer (← available for work)

Jan. 2024‣ Move into AI building the most engaging user interfaces using psychology, user experience, accessibility, performance and design. ‣ Mentoring and supporting junior engineers, especially the under-represented groups ‣ Influencing and challenging standards Find my resume at https://bit.ly/user-centric-frontend-engineer I would love to bring my user-centric, creative skills to ‣ fitness and wellness ‣ fintech ‣ AI and deep learning.‣ Move into AI building the most engaging user interfaces using psychology, user experience, accessibility, performance and design. ‣ Mentoring and supporting junior engineers, especially the under-represented groups ‣ Influencing and challenging standards Find my resume at https://bit.ly/user-centric-frontend-engineer I would love to bring my user-centric, creative skills to ‣ fitness and wellness ‣ fintech ‣ AI and deep learning.

ThriveworksTeam Lead

Jan. 2023 - Jun. 2023RemoteThriveworks is a mental health startup. My work in Finding Care focused on displaying therapy availability and increasing completion of user bookings. I was also a resource to senior and junior engineers, as well as a leader interacting with Product managers and Designers in feature implementation and ideation. ‣ Improved Developer Experience 66% eliminating meetings, removing unit test pipeline lag, creating shell scripts to automate branching and mitigate commit errors, and documenting onboarding, components and architecture in Confluence ‣ Mentored 2 Junior Engineers in React, Unit test logic, SCSS and Bootstrap grid with daily check-ins ‣ Ensured timely feature delivery by taking initiative to complete design, iterating, and readily communicating with Design team, as well as negotiating with Product managers to scope projects, and allocate resources ‣ Led the Developer Experience Committee collaborating to create or enhance tools (Docker containers, component wrappers, Husky pre-commit scripts, linter configurations) to increase developer autonomy and output ‣ Enhanced React codebase simplifying redundancies, creating sustainable easy-to-use components, collaborating in peer reviews, group testing, and advising on SCSS implementation and approach ‣ Contributed and reviewed React, Next, Typescript and sometimes Nest code, providing feedback, improving code quality, preventing bugs and ensuring Unit Test implementation ‣ Represented management in meetings as needed ‣ Improved Developer Ex

ThriveworksSenior Frontend Engineer

Jun. 2022 - Dec. 2022RemoteSee Team Lead above

CarGurusFrontend Engineer, Consumer to Dealer Team

Aug. 2021 - Jun. 2022RemoteCarGurus delivers a trusted car-shopping experience using field expertise and data analytics. ‣ Discovered deficiencies using Sentry, Snowflake and Graylog that once unblocked increased user flow by 30% ‣ Generated data analysis and identified user flow correlations that supported reducing 10 steps down to 3 ‣ Used behavioral psychology to design and document 12 product features that would captivate users and increase user CTA engagement. Once presented to Product, 3 were implemented, and 3 more were up for implementation consideration. ‣ Supported women engineers by checking-in weekly and amplifying their voices in discussions, as well as leading discussions and participating in the Women Engineering Committee ‣ Collected company wide votes on open source projects and distributed funds to selected projects as part of the Open Source Foundation

CarGurusFrontend Engineer, Developer Experience Team

Mar. 2021 - Aug. 2021RemoteDeveloper Experience was responsible for CarGurus' component library, and building tools that increase developer efficacy. ‣ Held meetings with various teams (DevOps, Database, Frontend Engineers,Backend Engineers and Architects) to understand the end to end flow and device a solution to prevent data loss during updates of explicit typed events. Documented several solutions highlighting pros and cons ‣ Helped develop an event tracker helper tool in JavaScript for internal use to reduce engineering error during Snowplow explicit typed event updates ‣ Provided educational videos and written instruction documenting event creation or modification, and use of the helper tool

Bamboo RoseLead User Interface Engineer

Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2021BambooRose is a leading product lifecycle and supply chain platform. If you are looking to create a new product and bring it to market— BambooRose. My role at BambooRose was all encompassing. I worked with all engineering teams to contribute user interfaces, data schemas, and create new screens. Engaged with the Design team to vet new feature design. Collaborated with QA to find, understand, and fix layout issues. Vetted new UX layouts making sure they covered all user roles and logic. Arrived equipped with ping pong balls to play with the office pug, Lola. You feel me? ‣ Played integral multi-departmental role representing Design, UX, UI and Engineering during the Covid pandemic, working closely with Product to build and iterate through interactive POCs using JavaScript ‣ Triaged with QA VP and UX Director to vet and select features for development ‣ Served as ombudsman when Engineering Director could not reach Engineers or Engineers could not reach Director; and yes, on occasion I was the deliverer of bad news ‣ Mentored Backend Engineers in SCSS, HTML and React, supported Junior Frontend Engineers in component structure, and refactored code as an individual contributor

Bamboo RoseSenior User Interface Engineer

Dec. 2012 - Jan. 2017On-site‣ Architected, built and delivered the Design Center screens using Bootstrap, Foundation, HTML, CSS, JS and mock data structures with detailed comments to the backend for implementation with FreeMarker. Eventually I was in charge of the full implementation ‣ Worked with Apache, Ant, Redis, Maven, Jenkins and Eclipse to run our environment and implement changes; modified Java as needed