Javier Garcia
Creative developer collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to create great web experiences.
javier.garcia549@gmail.com
https://javiergarcia.io
Experience
Frontend Engineer, Marketing — GitLab
October 2020 – July 2021 (Contract), August 2021 – Present (Employee)
- Led development of 0.x Slippers Design System for marketing web properties
- Redeveloped main site navigation to improve free trial signups by 6% and pageviews by 11%
- Executed rebuild of various key pages within site rearchitecture
- Orchestrated Launchdarkly for AB testing pages
- Added browser events to track Annual Recurring Revenue through product onboarding
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 towards an open source notebook solution
Web Developer — Cal Poly Corporation
October 2019 – December 2020(Contract)
- Created pattern library to increase consistency and documentation within web components
- Designed and developed various form button states across all domain web projects
- Improved browser support among IE9+, a key demographic in higher education
- Designed web application for auto updating campus dining menus
UI/UX Design Intern — Project Jupyter
April 2019 – September 2019
- Improved prototyping workflow from screenshots to a library of Figma components
- Conducted eye-tracking studies to test existing and experimental user interactions
- Interacted with community members to align their wants with organizational objectives
Education
University of California, San Diego
M.A.S Data Science and Engineering (2022 – 2024)
currently enrolled
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
B.S. Graphic Communication, UI/UX Concentration (2015 – 2019)
Computer Science Minor
Skills
Development
Semantic HTML, Scalable CSS, Javascript, Typescript, Vue.js, Git
Data
python, numpy, pandas, spark, dask, sklearn, matplotlib, SQL
Design
Product Thinking, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Typography, Working within Agile