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Amanda Vilela
Verified Expert in Engineering
Responsive UI Developer
Amanda is a front-end specialist with 11+ years of expertise in modular and cross-browser CSS, web performance, SEO, accessibility, and crafting UIs from mock-ups to pixel-perfection. She is proficient in managing technical projects, providing technical guidance, and mentoring teams. Amanda is widely experienced working with various clients, from startups to enterprise companies like AT&T, IBM, and Sprint.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Node Version Manager, Slack, Docker, Webpack, ITerm, Git, Sublime Text
The most amazing...
...technical challenge I've had was fully remaking the front end of a legacy front-office app from scratch to enable users to activate their phone data plans.
Work Experience
Engineering Manager
ConsumerAffairs.com
- Led a front-end team, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Provided feedback and consistent 1:1s, conducted performance reviews, and identified growth opportunities to empower team members for excellence, aligning with company goals.
- Contributed to the end-to-end management of technical projects, holding the team accountable from initiation through to delivery, ensuring projects were completed within scope, on schedule, and following quality standards.
- Translated technical concepts into easily understandable language for non-technical stakeholders, facilitating productive discussions and decision-making.
- Promoted communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams, aligning technical and business goals. Proactively addressed intricate technical challenges, ensuring project flow and risk mitigation.
- Strategically formed success squads, carefully assembled to amplify productivity and enhance project outcomes.
- Leveraged deep technical expertise in web performance, SEO, and accessibility to guide the team and make informed decisions.
Team Lead
ConsumerAffairs.com
- Spearheaded technical decision-making, ensuring the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and best practices in front-end development.
- Collaborated seamlessly with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and back-end developers, to align technical and business objectives.
- Took a proactive role in optimizing web page performance, employing a data-driven approach to identify bottlenecks and implement performance enhancements.
- Achieved significant improvements in page load times and user experience, moving all the consumeraffairs.com URLs from "poor" or "needs improvement" to "good" on the Google Core Web Vitals metrics.
- Championed accessibility initiatives within the team, conducting accessibility audits and ensuring that our projects adhered to WCAG standards. As a result, all pages attended WCAG Level AA.
Senior JavaScript Developer
ConsumerAffairs.com (via Toptal)
- Implemented responsive, pixel-perfect, and cross-browser UIs through mobile-first and BEM methodologies.
- Re-engineered style guide components for speed, maintainability, and accessibility.
- Led performance optimization efforts by employing a data-driven approach to identify and address performance bottlenecks, minimize HTTP requests, and implement lazy loading techniques.
- Conducted regular accessibility audits, identified and addressed issues, and promoted inclusive design principles within the development team.
- Created a user tracking and analytics system on the client side.
HTML Email Coder
MarketBridge (via Toptal)
- Coded responsive and pixel-perfect email templates.
- Tested coded emails across all major email clients, such as AOL, Office 365, Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo.
- Handled quality control, such as final proofreading, link testing, and rendering.
Email Template Developer
Razeware (via Toptal)
- Implemented responsive and pixel-perfect HTML email templates from designs.
- Ran the email templates on testing tools to ensure cross-platform support.
- Uploaded and tested the templates on the email automation tool.
Senior Front-end Developer
IBM
- Created high-quality mockups and prototypes translating customer needs into functional and appealing interactive applications.
- Created prototypes and developed and maintained web applications using AngularJS and Angular.
- Helped other developers with coding and troubleshooting.
- Planned, reviewed, and brainstormed applications alongside the development team.
- Improved the front-end performance of a client application by 30%, reducing the time users took to perform the tasks and consequently increasing the delivery and billing.
- Contributed as a back-end developer using Python and Django to create an API.
- Mentored and trained people in front-end development and Git flows.
Front-end Developer
Freelance
- Created quality mockups and prototypes for websites and validated them with clients.
- Produced, modified, and maintained websites.
- Customized and developed themes for WordPress.
Front-end Developer
Well Internet
- Created quality mockups and prototypes for websites and validated it with clients.
- Produced, modified, and maintained websites.
- Customized and developed themes for WordPress.
- Optimized websites for search engines (SEO).
- Created HTML email templates and newsletters for email marketing campaigns.
- Redesigned the layout of an eCommerce site that generated an increase of 20% in sales.
- Improved the loading time an eCommerce site increasing the average time of visits by 15%.
- Created AB tests with the increased win rate of 20% on a product landing page.
- Implemented rigorous process for cross-browser testing in IE, Mozilla, and Chrome, which corrected layout issues in an eCommerce site.
Experience
Front-office Application
Technology Leadership Council App
Web Editor of Flat Files
EducationOne: Online ERP for Schools
UI Experiments at CodePen
Tech Talks
https://speakerdeck.com/amandavilelaSkills
Languages
ES7, JavaScript, Sass, CSS, HTML, Markdown, Python, PHP, Python 3
Frameworks
AngularJS, Angular, Bootstrap, Jasmine, Django REST Framework, Express.js, Jest
Libraries/APIs
Flexbox, jQuery, Node.js, HTML5 APIs
Tools
Git, Jira, Trello, NPM, Adobe Photoshop, Atom, Sublime Text, ITerm, Slack, Node Version Manager, Email on Acid, Webpack
Other
User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), CSS Grid, Responsive UI, Pixel Perfect, Progressive Web Applications (PWA), PWA, Front-end Development, SEO Tools, Mobile First, Organic SEO, Responsive Email Templates, Email Templates, Core Web Vitals, Drip Email, Cerberus Security, Email Coding, HTML Email, Chrome Extensions, Web Accessibility, Front-end Architecture, Web Project Management
Paradigms
BEM, UI Design, Web Performance Optimization (WPO), Scrum, Agile, UX Design, Team Development
Platforms
Linux, WordPress, Docker, Firebase
Storage
MongoDB, SQLite
Education
Technologist in Information Systems in Computer Engineering
Fatec Sorocaba - Sorocaba
IT Technician Focusing On Web Development in Computer Engineering
Etec Fernando Prestes - Sorocaba
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