Résumé
Sam Lindqvist
Senior Frontend Engineer
- Berkeley, CA
- sam@example.com
- github.com/samlindqvist
Summary
Frontend engineer with nine years of experience building accessible, fast web applications for travel, finance and culture. I lead teams through rebuilds without stopping the business, I like design systems and performance budgets, and I care about the details users notice.
Experience
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Senior Frontend Engineer · Northwind Travel
2022 — Present
Remote · Berkeley — Tech lead for the booking and itinerary teams (11 engineers).
- Led the rebuild of the booking flow as server-rendered, progressively enhanced pages, raising conversion by 18% and cutting JavaScript by 64%.
- Created and maintain Aurora, the design system now used by 6 product teams and 140+ screens.
- Mentored 5 engineers through promotion to mid and senior levels; run the frontend guild.
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Frontend Engineer · Globex Finance
2019 — 2022
Walnut Creek — Customer-facing web banking for 400,000 monthly users.
- Built the account dashboard and payments flows in React and TypeScript.
- Brought the app to WCAG 2.1 AA and introduced automated accessibility checks in CI.
- Reduced Largest Contentful Paint from 4.1s to 1.6s on mid-range Android phones.
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Web Developer · Studio Shattuck
2017 — 2019
Emeryville — Agency work for retail, culture and public-sector clients.
- Shipped 30+ marketing sites and campaigns, including the relaunch of a Bay Area art museum.
- Introduced a component library that halved build time for new client sites.
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Junior Developer · Pixel & Co
2016 — 2017
Davis — First role after college.
- Built WordPress themes and email templates; learned to love semantic HTML.