Hi, I am Ed Diaz, a frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with 10+ years building customer-facing web products, internal platforms, and commerce tools. I specialize in React, Next.js, TypeScript, reusable UI, API integrations, and performance-focused frontend architecture. I enjoy modernizing codebases, improving usability, and shipping polished features end to end with product and design. In collaboration with product and design, I craft scalable UI systems and reliable experiences, partner on backend integrations, and champion accessibility and observability to ensure smooth, scalable growth.

Ed Diaz

Hi, I am Ed Diaz, a frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with 10+ years building customer-facing web products, internal platforms, and commerce tools. I specialize in React, Next.js, TypeScript, reusable UI, API integrations, and performance-focused frontend architecture. I enjoy modernizing codebases, improving usability, and shipping polished features end to end with product and design. In collaboration with product and design, I craft scalable UI systems and reliable experiences, partner on backend integrations, and champion accessibility and observability to ensure smooth, scalable growth.

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Hi, I am Ed Diaz, a frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with 10+ years building customer-facing web products, internal platforms, and commerce tools. I specialize in React, Next.js, TypeScript, reusable UI, API integrations, and performance-focused frontend architecture. I enjoy modernizing codebases, improving usability, and shipping polished features end to end with product and design.

In collaboration with product and design, I craft scalable UI systems and reliable experiences, partner on backend integrations, and champion accessibility and observability to ensure smooth, scalable growth.

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Work Experience

Sr Software Engineer (2nd technical hire) at FravityAI
October 1, 2024 - February 1, 2026
Built and shipped customer-facing and internal product features end to end using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Python, and Postgres; improved frontend architecture through reusable components and state flows; integrated REST/GraphQL APIs and async services to support secure multi-tenant workflows; enhanced usability with client-side validation, telemetry dashboards, and root-cause fixes; hardened release quality with AWS, Terraform/CDK, and CI/CD across ECS, Lambda, S3, and RDS.
Senior Software Engineer at thoughtbot
March 1, 2023 - September 1, 2024
Delivered production web apps and MVPs using React + TypeScript; built reusable components and design-system patterns with Tailwind to improve consistency, accessibility, and speed; integrated frontend with GraphQL/REST APIs and auth flows; improved quality via automated testing (Jest, Playwright, Pytest), code reviews, and observability; set up deployment pipelines with Docker, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and AWS to enable safe, frequent releases.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Figma
July 1, 2020 - September 1, 2023
Built collaboration-focused product experiences using TypeScript + React, optimizing complex UI state, responsiveness, and interaction performance; partnered with product/design to refine component behavior, accessibility, and localized user experiences; developed backend capabilities (Node.js services, Postgres/Redis) to support frontend features with safe integrations and backwards compatibility; improved performance and reliability via profiling, tracing, and caching; contributed to internal tooling, monorepo workflows, CI/CD, and testing automation.
Software Engineer at Stripe
June 1, 2018 - April 1, 2021
Shipped internal tools and dashboards using React + TypeScript + GraphQL to improve support workflows; built and maintained critical payment services (Python/TypeScript, API design, Postgres) with emphasis on correctness and reliability; implemented safety patterns across money flows (idempotency, retries, queue-based processing) with robust automated tests; contributed to secure-by-default design across authn/authz and data handling while balancing compliance with delivery speed; improved operational excellence with metrics, alerting, and incident readiness using Datadog dashboards.
Software Development Engineer at AWS
June 1, 2015 - May 1, 2018
Built internal tools and consoles with React/Angular + JavaScript and service APIs to improve workflows; developed and operated cloud backend services with scalable, durable, and observable characteristics; implemented automated infrastructure patterns using CloudFormation and IaC; improved service health through instrumentation, monitoring, alerting, and on-call readiness; reduced performance bottlenecks through profiling and caching under strict latency targets.
Senior Software Engineer (2nd technical hire) at FravityAI
October 1, 2024 - February 1, 2026
Built and shipped customer facing and internal product features end to end using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Python, and Postgres. Refined reusable components, state flows, and management UI behavior across core product areas. Integrated frontend experiences with REST and GraphQL APIs and async services to support secure multi tenant workflows. Raised usability and reliability through client side validation, telemetry dashboards, and root cause fixes. Hardened release quality with AWS, Terraform and CDK, and CI/CD across ECS, Lambda, S3 and RDS.

Education

M.S. Computer Science at Osaka University
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015
B.S. Computer Science at Osaka University
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2014
Master of Science in Computer Science at Osaka University
January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2015
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Osaka University
January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2014

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education, Financial Services