Available for select work

Paul
White

Senior Front-End Engineer

Senior Frontend Engineer with senior frontend engineer, 9 years in. I build AI-powered products people actually use — owning architecture, component systems, performance and accessibility.

Career snapshot
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Years shipping
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Products in production
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Avg. LCP improvement
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Lighthouse a11y score
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React / Next.js95
AI product UX88
Performance & a11y92
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React
Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
Framer Motion
Vercel AI SDK
Supabase
Anthropic
OpenAI
Radix UI
Three.js
GraphQL
Accessibility
Performance
React
Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
Framer Motion
Vercel AI SDK
Supabase
Anthropic
OpenAI
Radix UI
Three.js
GraphQL
Accessibility
Performance
About

The person behind the pixels

Senior Frontend Engineer with senior frontend engineer, 9 years in. I build AI-powered products people actually use — owning architecture, component systems, performance and accessibility.

01

Own the whole frontend

Architecture, component libraries, design systems — I set the foundation so teams can move fast without the codebase falling apart.

02

AI that ships

Streaming UIs, conversational UX and LLM workflows wired into real products — backed by Supabase and proper evaluation, not demos.

03

Performance is a feature

Code-splitting, lazy loading, caching and render work — the unglamorous stuff that makes a product feel instant.

04

Accessibility, not an afterthought

WCAG-aligned by default. Keyboard-first navigation, real semantics, and focus management baked into every component.

Education

B.S. Computer Engineering · University of Washington

2013 – 2017
Selected work

Products, not portfolios

A few things I've built and led. Each one shipped to real users — click through for the full story.

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Experience

Nine years, shipping the whole way

From enterprise SaaS platforms to high-traffic consumer web to production AI features.

Senior Frontend Engineer

@ Taazaa
Mar 2023 — May 2026

Remote

  • Led frontend development for multiple enterprise & SaaS apps in React, TypeScript and Next.js.
  • Designed scalable UI architectures, reusable component libraries and design systems.
  • Integrated AI features: intelligent search, chatbot interfaces, document summarization, recommendation systems and workflow automation.
  • Built conversational AI UX on top of OpenAI & Anthropic models via the Vercel AI SDK.
  • Optimized performance through code-splitting, lazy loading, caching and rendering improvements.
  • Ran code reviews and mentored junior engineers on frontend best practices.
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSshadcn/uiTanStack QuerySupabase

Senior Frontend Engineer

@ Airbnb
Aug 2020 — Mar 2023

Remote

  • Refined and updated React components to match the latest design system.
  • Cut unnecessary re-renders and optimized rendering across core pages.
  • Made the interface fully responsive and improved accessibility for a wider range of users.
  • Polished interactions and micro-animations to make the experience feel smoother.
  • Shipped UI updates through code reviews and a steady release cadence.
ReactTypeScriptGraphQLStyled ComponentsWeb AccessibilityPerformance

Web Developer

@ InfoTech
Sep 2017 — Jun 2020

Gainesville, FL

  • Built a complex in-browser PDF editor from scratch for DocExpress.
  • Led a security upgrade modernizing bid encryption with PKI.js and the WebCrypto API.
  • Built a GraphQL API to replace slower legacy data fetching.
  • Integrated OCR-powered document search into DocExpress.
  • Maintained a shared UI component library and set up Jest + Cypress testing.
Vue.jsNuxt.jsReactTypeScriptGraphQLWebCryptoJestCypress
Toolkit

A stack chosen for craft and speed

Deep in the React ecosystem, fluent across AI tooling, and comfortable dropping down to canvas, shaders and the platform when a product needs it.

React
Next.js
TypeScript
JavaScript
React Server Components
Astro
Tailwind CSS
shadcn/ui
Radix UI
Framer Motion
GSAP
Sass/SCSS
Vercel AI SDK
OpenAI
Anthropic
Supabase
TanStack Query
tRPC
Accessibility (WCAG)
Performance
Vitest
Playwright
Cypress
Storybook
Three.js
WebGL
Shaders
D3.js
Recharts
Figma
GoogleMap API
MapBox
Firebase
MonogoDB
React Native
Contact

Have a product that deserves a great frontend?

I'm open to senior frontend and AI-product roles, and select consulting. Send a note — I reply to everything.

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