United States

UI/ Visual Design

Front-end

Technical writing

Project Management

Systems Design

Alejandro Cuba Ruiz

Principal Front-End Engineer

LinkedIn

Public Speaking

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Leadership

Project management

AI/ML

Blog writing

Conversational AI

Design systems

Information architecture

Unit Testing

Balsamiq

ChatGPT

Figma

GitHub

HTML

JavaScript

Jira

Notion

Confluence

Angular

Cursor

Windsurf

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

• Coordinating the development of the WK Angular Library, serving 30+ reusable web components for Aviation, Marine, and Land web applications, ensuring consistency in UI and UX across domains.
• Reduced onboarding duration for new front-end developers by 2/3 through optimizing technical workflows and refining onboarding materials.
• Leading front-end technical interviews to bring talent aligned with company standards and cultural values.
• Actively coaching and mentoring front-end developers across multiple teams.
• Contributing to the Aviation and Marine Architecture Review Team, designed to maximize cross-team collaboration and software design coherence.

• Working closely with UX Leads on the evolution of the WKC Design System, translating conceptual user interface designs into implementable and feasible components, ensuring user experiences remain intuitive and modern.
• Maintaining front-end guidelines to standardize cross-team development.
• Transitioning web apps from REST API endpoints to GraphQL, making data retrieval more precise, reducing over-fetching, and improving response times.
• Introduced the LaunchDarkly feature management system to enable A/B testing, user segmentation, progressive rollout, server-driven UI, and maintenance messages.
• Contributing insights to the company-wide Tech Radar, assessing new libraries, frameworks, and tools to ensure we utilize the best fit for our projects.
• Hosting Angular Chapter bi-weekly sessions to cultivate a positive front-end culture within the company.

• Provided Angular, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS support to the Enterprise Portal Team during a company-wide Agile transformation.
• Developed visual components for the WFS MyWorld applications based on Angular.
• Collaborated with the UX/UI Lead, mapping low-fidelity wireframes to interactive prototypes.
• Defined front-end best practices to facilitate cross-team development.

• Replaced a legacy Admin Portal written in AngularJS with new Dashboards and Sharing Center modules using Angular, RxJS, and Chart.js to fulfill the diverse requirements of eight distinct admin roles.
• Led the codebase migration from AngularJS 1.4 to the component-based 1.6 version, and subsequently to the modern Angular platform.
• Collaborated with the UX Design Lead to refine comprehensive designs and style guides, enhancing user interface consistency across the platform.
• Developed functional prototypes and agile proof of concepts using Material Design to facilitate iterative improvements.
• Maintained technical documentation in Markdown, providing code style guidelines to help other developers contribute to the new Angular codebase using standardized coding and linting practices.
• Configured CI/CD of the client-side projects using VSTS.
• Introduced unit testing practices in the front-end development process, boosting the Karma and Jasmine coverage from 14% to nearly 85% of the entire codebase. Created e2e baseline tests targeting critical use cases using Protractor.
• Employed PhantomCSS to run visual regression testing, and routinely conducted performance audits using Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse.
• Hosted Sprint Retrospective meetings and “Lunch and Learn” sessions. Active contributor to the Fun Team of the organization to design team-building activities.

• Reengineered 8+ travel-related websites with a mobile-first approach, improving cross-browser experience and web performance metrics.
• Transformed wireframes and comprehensive designs into atomic UI components.
• Developed dynamic web components for flights, hotels and rentals booking engines, using HTML5 (preprocessed via Jekyll / Pug), LESS, postcss, and JavaScript tools such as RequireJS, Handlebars, jQuery, and Underscore.js.
• Defined HTML5 markup semantical structure, cross-browser compatibility, SEO, and front-end performance to achieve accessibility, searchability, and optimal page speed results.

• Developed the redesigned UI of a Cuban startup oriented to promoting local gastronomy.
• Refactored UI components in Bootstrap 3 using the Django template language.
• Introduced Web 2.0 components in the web app to engage customers with social features.
• Wrote a semantic HTML5 markup, defining places, locations, blog posts, and other entities based on Schema.org vocabulary.

• Transformed wireframes and comprehensive designs into atomic UI components.
• Built front-end automation using Grunt, Gulp, and then Webpack using Node.js to streamline repetitive tasks.
• Maintained existing pattern libraries of reusable UI components.
• Worked under Agile workflow using GitHub, Basecamp, and Taiga, producing and maintaining multiple projects simultaneously.

• Redesigned and developed the University Intranet site, utilizing Drupal as the content management system.
• Provided front-end web solutions for the Department of Software Development, leveraging HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript technologies.

• Instructed undergraduate and postgraduate students in Graphic User Interface Design and Web Development courses.
• Tutored students through their Web Design thesis projects.

• Responsible for the UI Architecture of this social web platform.
• Delivered HTML5 templates to the Ruby back-end team in an Agile development process.
• Worked with the Lead UI Designer to deliver modern, robust, responsive UI components.

• Developed over 20 websites and web applications for diverse customers such as startups, web designers, artists, restaurants, and social network platforms.
• Developed single-page apps, Drupal, and WordPress templates prioritizing Responsive Design and progressive-enhancement approach using Foundation or Bootstrap, adhering to the W3C's latest HTML and CSS recommendations, and integrating Schema.org vocabulary for semantic clarity.
• Provided front-end templates for web applications powered by PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, and Python.
• Contributed to task management projects involving C++ development using the Eclipse IDE in Ubuntu.
• Developed software using the LAMP stack, with the PHP framework CodeIgniter and MariaDB, PostgreSQL or SQLite as alternative database management systems.
• Developed and managed Drupal and WordPress websites with custom layouts.
• Collaborated with Information Architects, converting Balsamiq mockups that met client and project requirements into web experiences.
• Engaged with web designers from the very early stage of their process, ensuring synchronized collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.

Alejandro Cuba Ruiz🇺🇸

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