Ken Kozma

Senior Front End Developer

Skills

Languages: HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, JavaScript (ES6+), PHP, Python, MySQL, MariaDB

Frameworks & Libraries: TypeScript, Node.js, GSAP, React/NextJS, Vue/NuxtJS, Vuex/Pinia, Tailwind CSS, GraphQL

Tools: NPM, Vite, Gulp/Webpack, Git, GitHub Actions, Figma, Docker, Webflow, Wordpress, Linux, Jest, Cursor, ESLint

Core Skills: Web Performance, WCAG and a11y Compliance, UI/UX Principles, E2E Testing, API Integration, Front End Tooling

Dec 2023 - Present

Vitamin Inc. — Baltimore, MD

Owned and drove numerous complex, large projects and development tasks, rapidly adapting to shifting priorities while maintaining clean, scalable, and maintainable code mainly using Laravel, Wordpress, JavaScript, GSAP and TypeScript.
Collaborated seamlessly with the product and design team to convert complex design systems into responsive and SEO-friendly applications using scalable and well-documented frontend architecture within expected timelines.
Optimized and documented the internal process to ensure new and current client websites meet accessibility (WCAG), performance and quality standards using tools like Accessibee, Lighthouse and Google Analytics.

Feb 2023 - July 2023

Leasecake — Winter Park, FL

Led an important Vue 2 to Vue 3 migration for the official leasecake product by refactoring code to align with Composition API and TypeScript, updating dependencies and switching build tools to use Vite.
Consistently developed and integrated complex, test-driven, customer-facing UI interfaces into a Laravel ecosystem using Vue 2, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS and Jest into the primary product codebase.
Mentored junior engineers by hands-on troubleshooting realtime bugs and conducted code reviews to refine their ability to solve problems properly and in timely manners.

Apr 2022 - Feb 2023

Quevis — Los Angeles, CA

Collaborated extensively with a remote product and engineering team to integrate an interactive dashboard interface using NextJS that consumed a RESTful API while also integrating third party services like Stripe and Twilio SMS, secured with token-based authentication.

Apr 2019 - Apr 2022

liquidfish — Oklahoma City, OK

Translated complex business logic and UI design requirements into clean, scalable and performant customer-facing websites and data-heavy dashboards deployed via CI/CD within a Linux environment built using Laravel, JavaScript, Vue and MySQL.
Adapted quickly in high-velocity environments, managing multiple roles across full-stack development, problem-solving, bug support and client communication to keep projects moving forward and out the door.
Improved critical internal processes by initiating and integrating a UI component library into an in-house CMS to remove repetitive tasks and move quicker while scaffolding new web projects.

Apr 2022 - Feb 2023

Developed and deployed an internal web scraping tool built using Flask (Python) and Beautiful Soup to gather and run public social media data through targeted analytics.

Laravel (Inertia), Vue, Tailwind, MySQL, PayMongo API

Developed a clean and minimal accommodation booking platform integrating the PayMongo Checkout API, supporting secure online payments for multiple local hotels.

March 2018