Javier Garcia

Frontend Engineer, Marketing — GitLab

October 2020 – Present

• Redesigned site navigation resulting in a 6% increase in free trial signups and 11% lift in pageviews across about.gitlab.com
• Designed Marketo form translation system that replaced the creation of up to 7 duplicate forms per language with a single automated config, enabling 1,900+ monthly non-English free trial form submissions (27% of total) with double-digit growth across key markets
• Serve as primary Optimizely engineer for the DEX Testing Program, implementing experiments and debugging SSG hydration conflicts in partnership with product and growth teams
• Own localization engineering relationship and led cross-regional CMS training that enabled the Japan team to publish independently
• Authored marketing site approval process for about.gitlab.com (3500+ pages), introducing governance controls to prevent analytics, SEO, and brand regressions
• Built custom ESLint plugin enforcing analytics tracking attributes on all interactive elements, automating data quality checks previously requiring manual code review
• Fixed TypeScript config inheritance that had blocked vue-tsc type-checking site-wide; contributed to multi-year Middleman-to-Nuxt frontend migration
• Contributed to the core GitLab product (gitlab-org/gitlab), implementing business email domain detection and GTM dataLayer events to optimize paid search ad spend targeting
• Co-lead and submittee lead for GitLab's Gente TMRG (Latiné Team Member Resource Group), coordinating community events and cross-org initiatives

Interaction Designer — Noteable

January 2020 – May 2020

• Shaped product strategy through competitive analysis of 50+ notebook products; contributed to nteract open source project

UI/UX Design Intern — Project Jupyter, Cal Poly

April 2019 – September 2019

• Designed JupyterLab extensions validated through eye-tracking studies; built reusable Figma component library

Web Developer — Cal Poly Corporation

April 2018 – March 2019

• Built pattern library and web applications serving the campus community

University of California, San Diego

M.A.S. Data Science and Engineering, 2024

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

B.S. Graphic Communication, UI/UX Concentration, 2019 — Computer Science Minor