Javier Garcia
Frontend engineer leveraging data science to build infrastructure for enterprise technology companies that convert.
javier.garcia549@gmail.com
https://javiergarcia.io
Experience
Frontend Engineer, Marketing — GitLab
October 2020 – Present
- Led development of Version 0 of Slippers Design System for marketing assets
- Redeveloped main site navigation to improve free trial signups by 6% and pageviews by 11%
- Executed rebuild of various key pages within site rearchitecture from Middleman to Nuxt
- Orchestrated Launchdarkly for feature flag AB testing
- Added browser events in the GitLab product to track marketing pipeline from marketing page call-to-action through free trial registration
- Setup historical tracking of Google Lighthouse web vital scores on build
- Migrated topics pages from YAML to Contentful to improve intra-department effiency
- Rapidly iterated webpages to coincide with timely competitive AI releases
- Added GitLab cookie to track product user tiers to enable user personalization
Interaction Designer — Noteable
January 2020 – May 2020
- Analyzed competitive landscape among 50+ direct competitors in the notebook space
- Collaborated with leadership in creating a enterprise notebook application based on existing user research conducted by AWS
- Contributed web styles to nteract, an open source notebook solution
UI/UX Design Intern — Project Jupyter Cal Poly
April 2019 – September 2019
- Improved prototyping workflow from screenshots to a library of Figma components
- Designed two JupyterLab extensions to improve user experience for data scientists
- Conducted eye-tracking studies to test user interactions and align community members with organizational objectives
Web Developer — Cal Poly Corporation
April 2018 – March 2019, October 2019 – December 2019(Contract)
- Created pattern library to increase consistency and documentation within web components
- Designed, developed, and shipped consistent form button states across web projects
- Improved browser support among IE9+, a key demographic in higher education
- Created web application for auto updating campus dining menus
Education
University of California, San Diego
M.A.S Data Science and Engineering (2022 – 2024)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
B.S. Graphic Communication, UI/UX Concentration (2015 – 2019)
Computer Science Minor
Skills
Web Development
Semantic HTML, Scalable CSS, Javascript, Typescript, Vue.js, Typography, Web Accessibility, Git, CI/CD, Google Analytics, SEO
Data
Python, SQL, Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, AWS, Sklearn