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Senior software engineer with 8+ years of experience architecting high-scale web and mobile applications across enterprise, consulting, and product environments. Extensive frontend experience (React, Next.js, Vue, TypeScript) and resilient backend services (Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) supporting US-based clients with very high user volumes. Proven record optimizing CI/CD, modernizing legacy codebases, and leading cross-functional delivery in distributed teams across full US time zone overlap (UTC-5). Experienced building reusable component systems, enforcing typed API contracts, and delivering platform features ahead of schedule.…Senior software engineer with 8+ years of experience architecting high-scale web and mobile applications across enterprise, consulting, and product environments. Extensive frontend experience (React, Next.js, Vue, TypeScript) and resilient backend services (Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) supporting US-based clients with very high user volumes. Proven record optimizing CI/CD, modernizing legacy codebases, and leading cross-functional delivery in distributed teams across full US time zone overlap (UTC-5). Experienced building reusable component systems, enforcing typed API contracts, and delivering platform features ahead of schedule.

Keno Clayton

Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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Senior software engineer with 8+ years of experience architecting high-scale web and mobile applications across enterprise, consulting, and product environments. Extensive frontend experience (React, Next.js, Vue, TypeScript) and resilient backend services (Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) supporting US-based clients with very high user volumes. Proven record optimizing CI/CD, modernizing legacy codebases, and leading cross-functional delivery in distributed teams across full US time zone overlap (UTC-5). Experienced building reusable component systems, enforcing typed API contracts, and delivering platform features ahead of schedule.…Senior software engineer with 8+ years of experience architecting high-scale web and mobile applications across enterprise, consulting, and product environments. Extensive frontend experience (React, Next.js, Vue, TypeScript) and resilient backend services (Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) supporting US-based clients with very high user volumes. Proven record optimizing CI/CD, modernizing legacy codebases, and leading cross-functional delivery in distributed teams across full US time zone overlap (UTC-5). Experienced building reusable component systems, enforcing typed API contracts, and delivering platform features ahead of schedule.

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Senior software engineer with 8+ years of experience architecting high-scale web and mobile applications across enterprise, consulting, and product environments. Extensive frontend experience (React, Next.js, Vue, TypeScript) and resilient backend services (Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) supporting US-based clients with very high user volumes.

Proven record optimizing CI/CD, modernizing legacy codebases, and leading cross-functional delivery in distributed teams across full US time zone overlap (UTC-5). Experienced building reusable component systems, enforcing typed API contracts, and delivering platform features ahead of schedule.

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Senior Software Engineer at Grid Dynamics Jamaica

January 1, 2024 - Present

Contributed across multiple international client engagements spanning shared platform infrastructure, storefront foundations, and internal retail tooling using Vue, Nuxt, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Vite, Vitest, and Jenkins with strictly typed API contracts. Contributed to a foundational platform initiative supporting 6+ internal product teams powering store front experiences for tens of millions of monthly users using Vue 3, Nuxt, Vite, and TypeScript. Built and maintained reusable Vue/Nuxt components with pixel-perfect implementation, accessibility best practices, and alignment to design requirements; expanded automated test coverage to 80%+ on average. Balanced roadmap-driven work (dependency upgrades/maintenance) with rapid responses to urgent cross-team engineering requests, updating documentation and supporting internal adoption. Led frontend delivery for an enterprise Next.js/React companion app used by store experts for customer service and AI-driven recommendations, integrati

Senior Software Engineer at Modus Create

February 1, 2021 - January 1, 2024

Served as Senior React Engineer and Team Lead for AARP Money Map, architecting features for a financial planning application serving 500K+ monthly active users across budgeting, debt payoff, and savings tools. Led a comprehensive refactor of an outdated state management architecture, improving system stability and reducing user-facing bugs and broken flows by 50%+. Engineered build and pipeline optimizations, including migrating legacy Webpack to Vite, reducing local build/start times by 30–60% and CI pipeline runtimes by 50–70%. Delivered cross-stack feature work across React, GraphQL, and AWS serverless backends while maintaining strict API schema updates, complex financial calculations, and backend logic.

Senior Software Developer at Smart Mobile Solutions Jamaica Ltd.

February 1, 2020 - February 1, 2021

Led the redesign, development, and deployment of a new React-based website for a major auto insurance client, delivering the initial version in ~3 months. Built and maintained a private REST API using Node.js, Express, TypeScript, and SQL to support business-critical workflows for online users, in-branch kiosk users, and internal staff. Developed a React Native and Expo kiosk application for in-branch use to extend the client’s digital capabilities beyond the web platform. Automated production website and internal application deployment processes using Bash scripting, significantly reducing manual deployment effort and improving consistency. Improved load times and performance by refactoring frontend code and moving key functionality to backend and server-side environments, while contributing to code reviews and technical documentation.

Lead Developer / Freelance Consultant at Clayton Innovations

September 1, 2016 - January 1, 2026

Delivered end-to-end web and mobile solutions for clients, handling architecture, implementation, API development, deployment, and ongoing iteration across a range of business needs. Built custom client solutions using React, Next.js, React Native, WordPress, PHP, Laravel, GraphQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Led development of a conference event website for a major US-based charity using WordPress, PHP, and MySQL, including countdown-based event promotion and pre-registration functionality. Designed and developed an MVP mobile news application for Jamaican users using React Native and Expo, backed by a Laravel and GraphQL API deployed to a DigitalOcean VPS with authentication for both app users and admin workflows. Managed projects end-to-end from planning and UI implementation through backend development, deployment, client communication, and post-launch improvements.