Javier Garcia

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 webpages within site rearchitecture
• Conducted experiments to measure free trial flow from product documentation
• Orchestrated Launchdarkly as an AB testing platform
• 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

University of California, San Diego

M.A.S Data Science and Engineering (2022 – Present)

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

B.S. Graphic Communication, UI/UX Concentration (2015 – 2019)

Computer Science Minor

GPA: 3.13