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Jane Doe
Summary
Frontend developer with 4+ years of professional experience with React, building web apps and a React Native mobile app for a payments company and a health-tech startup. TypeScript at work since Mar 2024 and in freelance projects since Jan 2023. Builds reusable React components documented in Storybook, improves page performance, and writes unit and end-to-end tests. Also runs a part-time freelance practice building Next.js websites for small businesses. Fluent in English, native Swahili speaker.
Technical Skills
Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, SQL
Frontend: React, Next.js, React Native, Tailwind CSS, Storybook
Backend: Node.js, Express, REST APIs, PostgreSQL
Testing & Tools: Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, Lighthouse, Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), Git, GitHub Actions, Vercel, Figma
Spoken Languages: English (fluent), Swahili (native), French (basic)
Experience
Self-employed, Freelance Frontend Engineer (part-time)Jan 2023 – Present
- Built 6 websites for small businesses with Next.js and Tailwind CSS.
- Used TypeScript in all freelance projects.
- Set up deployments on Vercel and basic analytics with Plausible.
Brightleaf Labs, Frontend DeveloperMar 2024 – Present
- Built and maintained the customer dashboard of a payments web app in React and TypeScript.
- Built about 15 reusable React components, documented in Storybook.
- Wrote Playwright end-to-end tests for the sign-up and payment flows.
- Improved dashboard load time by an estimated 20–30% (Lighthouse lab data) through code splitting and image optimization.
- Helped migrate the checkout flow from JavaScript to TypeScript, working with two other developers.
- Mentored 1 intern for 3 months through code reviews and pair programming.
Kijiji Health, Junior Web DeveloperJun 2022 – Feb 2024
- Built React pages for the clinic admin portal.
- Wrote unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library.
- Added endpoints to a Node.js/Express REST API backed by PostgreSQL, reviewed by the backend developer.
- Built a React Native appointment booking app with about 1,200 monthly active users (mid-2023).
Tano Systems, Software Engineering InternJun 2021 – Sep 2021
- Fixed accessibility issues in an internal dashboard toward WCAG 2.1 AA (colour contrast, keyboard navigation, form labels).
Projects
Shamba Prices, side project2025
- Built a chat assistant that answers crop price questions in English and Swahili, using the Claude API and a PostgreSQL database of market prices.
- About 40 farmers used it during a 2-week pilot with a local cooperative.
Education
Kilima University, B.Sc. Computer Science, graduated Dec 2021. Second Class Honours (Upper Division).