Resume
Senior Front-End Software Engineer
Laurie Reynolds · Remote, CA, USA
- Senior/Staff Front-end engineer with deep experience building accessible, high-scale applications across global e-commerce (Walmart Payments), civic tech (U.S. Digital Response, Nava PBC), and FDA-regulated systems (Thermo Fisher, Siemens Medical/Acuson).
- Led frontend engineering for web payment systems on Walmart.com (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), PayPal, Affirm, Credit Card) serving millions of daily users.
- Introduced and scaled accessibility tooling (eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y, jest-axe) in a 1,000+ developer monorepo, shipping payment systems with zero blocker accessibility bugs.
- Currently expanding into AI-enabled application development, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic workflows, evaluation, and grounded AI experiences, while continuing hands-on work in React, Next.js, accessibility, and front-end architecture.
- Drives alignment through early prototyping, journey-based technical design, and mentoring; collaborative across product, design, security, and engineering.
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, Python, Vue, Tailwind CSS, D3.js, Figma, Redux, Design Systems, SSR
AI & Data
OpenAI API, RAG, Postgres/pgvector, AI evaluation
Testing & Tooling
Vitest, Jest, Playwright, React Testing Library, Mock Service Worker, axe DevTools, eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y
DevOps & Deployment
Docker, CI/CD, Vercel, Splunk, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MySQL
Other
Accessibility (a11y), Performance Optimization, PCI DSS, CCPA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, Agile, Scrum Certification
Experience
May 2025 — Present
Fully Remote
Building and evaluating modern front-end and AI-enabled applications while deepening expertise in agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation, accessibility, and scalable application architecture.
- Design and build React/Next.js applications and prototypes exploring AI-assisted workflows, RAG, structured retrieval, tool use, citations, evaluation, and graceful failure modes.
- Develop ArtLoupe, an AI-assisted art exploration and analysis platform integrating external museum and image APIs with accessible, responsive data visualizations and AI-generated analysis.
- Apply production engineering practices—including accessibility, automated testing, performance, observability, and component architecture—to experimental and AI-enabled applications.
Nava PBC
February 2025 — May 2025
Fully Remote
Brought in to help form a new team supporting the New Jersey Department of Labor’s unemployment services. Onboarded and mentored several engineers, coached one new hire on front-end work, established a meeting-free focus day, and ensured a smooth handoff to the incoming team lead.
U.S. Digital Response
October 2024 — February 2025
Fully Remote
Extended Grant Finder functionality. Improved the testability and accessibility of the Grant Finder and American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Reporting applications.
- Refactored UI components for keyboard navigation and screen reader compatibility.
Walmart Global Tech
February 2019 — August 2024
Carlsbad, CA and Fully Remote
- Staff Software EngineerMay 2023 — August 2024
- Senior Software EngineerFebruary 2019 — May 2023
Led frontend engineering for web payment systems on Walmart.com (EBT SNAP, PayPal, WIC, credit card, Affirm) used by millions of customers daily. Focused on accessibility, performance, and maintainable architecture across checkout and billing experiences, collaborating closely with web, mobile, backend, product, UX, security, fraud, and international teams.
Architecture & Component Systems
- Built a reusable React Wallet component that reduced duplication and simplified payment integration across Checkout, W+ Membership, Buy Now, and Subscription flows.
- Implemented third-party payment verification with resilient retry logic to reduce transient failures, mitigate fraud risk, and improve transaction reliability.
- Developed a dynamic, card-type-aware payment form that rendered required fields based on detected payment type and supported both side-panel and embedded checkout layouts without duplicating UI logic.
Security & Compliance
- Led InfoSec submissions for web and mobile Payments applications (PCI compliance, audit readiness).
- Contributed to the company-wide California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance initiative under a strict regulatory deadline, supporting production cutover and release coordination.
- Built a schema-driven nutrition label renderer to support regulatory update requirements, enabling structured, maintainable layout changes.
Performance, Experimentation & Reliability
- Reduced app load time and improved Core Web Vitals through bundle optimization, lazy loading, and skeleton UI.
- Proactively monitored checkout experiment dashboards, comparing control and variant error rates to identify discrepancies early and protect experiment validity.
- Increased test coverage and reliability through audit and refactor of React/TestCafe integration suites.
- Improved CI stability across frontend deployments using Mock Service Worker and test isolation.
Accessibility Leadership
- Introduced and scaled shift-left accessibility tooling (eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y, jest-axe) within a large frontend monorepo.
- Remediated accessibility violations and launched payment systems with zero blocker accessibility bugs.
- Facilitated an accessibility workshop for approximately 50 engineers, product, and UX team members, promoting accessible design and development practices.
- Delivered internal talks on accessible design analysis and unit test strategies to reduce regressions.
Operational Support & On-Call
- Participated in on-call rotation during peak traffic periods, including holidays, supporting production incidents and collaborating with third-party payment providers to mitigate downtime.
- Authored incident response guidelines and collected Splunk queries and dashboards to assist on-call engineers in rapid triage and recovery.
[24]7.ai
September 2017 — January 2019
San Jose, CA
Delivered web-based tools for language tagging, bot testing, and data labeling, improving machine language model iteration cycles.
- Designed React-based reusable component system to support Natural Language Understanding (NLU) model workflows.
Kofile
April 2016 — September 2017
San Francisco, CA
Developed an administration application for clerks to configure the recording system. Worked closely with the UX team to develop new React components and achieve pixel-level match to the design.
Code for San Jose
February 2015 — April 2016
San Jose, CA
Collaborated with the City of San Jose Economics Office to build an interactive dashboard with D3.js visualizations and configurable data displays. First React/D3 project, marking transition from scientific programming to web development.
Regulated & Medical Software Engineering
Senior engineering roles across medical imaging, biotech, and regulated scientific systems (1999 — 2013).
Nodality, Inc.
1+ year
South San Francisco, CA
Managed laboratory software development in a biotech startup using C#, WPF, SQL Server, Python, Django, and D3.js.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
7 years
San Jose, CA
Led development of FDA-regulated laboratory and diagnostic applications, delivering 21 CFR Part 11 compliant software for drug discovery. Supported collaboration to use Thermo Fisher products for drug testing at the 2012 Olympics.
Siemens Medical Solutions (Acuson)
5 years
Mountain View, CA
Developed advanced imaging UIs and visualization tools for Sequoia ultrasound systems. Contributed to standards-aligned medical imaging workflows.
Media and Financial Experience
Rovi Corporation, Knight Ridder Digital, Associated Press, Thomson Grass Valley (Dubner Computer Systems), Tudor Investments, Knight Ridder Financial, Sony Electronics (Medical Division).
Volunteer
October 2025 — Present
Accessibility evaluations for nonprofit and small-business websites; site updates plus type-checking and end-to-end testing added to CI.
September 2024 — Present
Updating classes and workshops on the website.
Education
M.S. Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science
Fairleigh Dickinson University — Hackensack, NJ