I’m a senior front-end engineer from Mendoza, Argentina, with 13 years of experience designing and shipping micro-frontends and design systems for enterprise and B2B SaaS products. I specialize in token-based UI architecture, scalable component libraries, and delivering consistent frontend experiences across multi-tenant platforms. I’ve led end-to-end migrations and built performance- and accessibility-focused interfaces using modern React/Next.js/Vue stacks, with a strong emphasis on clean systems thinking, testing, and developer velocity. I enjoy collaborating with international teams across time zones and using AI-augmented workflows to improve code quality and speed of delivery.

Renée Paternesi

I’m a senior front-end engineer from Mendoza, Argentina, with 13 years of experience designing and shipping micro-frontends and design systems for enterprise and B2B SaaS products. I specialize in token-based UI architecture, scalable component libraries, and delivering consistent frontend experiences across multi-tenant platforms. I’ve led end-to-end migrations and built performance- and accessibility-focused interfaces using modern React/Next.js/Vue stacks, with a strong emphasis on clean systems thinking, testing, and developer velocity. I enjoy collaborating with international teams across time zones and using AI-augmented workflows to improve code quality and speed of delivery.

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I’m a senior front-end engineer from Mendoza, Argentina, with 13 years of experience designing and shipping micro-frontends and design systems for enterprise and B2B SaaS products. I specialize in token-based UI architecture, scalable component libraries, and delivering consistent frontend experiences across multi-tenant platforms.

I’ve led end-to-end migrations and built performance- and accessibility-focused interfaces using modern React/Next.js/Vue stacks, with a strong emphasis on clean systems thinking, testing, and developer velocity. I enjoy collaborating with international teams across time zones and using AI-augmented workflows to improve code quality and speed of delivery.

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Spanish; Castilian
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Work Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer at Halo Media
January 1, 2024 - Present
Architected an employee benefits portal MVP using semantic design and a token-based pipeline with React and Next.js, building a micro-frontend UI component library from scratch and establishing a foundation for a multi-tenant platform. Led end-to-end typography migration and standardized design tokens across the codebase by replacing Tailwind CSS primitive classes with semantic tokens. Delivered client work in Angular within a client-managed VDI environment (Ascent) for a financial portfolio platform (PDS), including data-driven features such as characteristics management, multi-scenario CRUD flows, and inline data validation. Refactored UI and theming using Angular Material, implemented typed API data layers, and improved reliability with unit test coverage using Angular 9 and NgRx. Also developed and maintained an event-ticketing front-end with micro-frontend architecture, integrating Stripe payments and seating maps for embedded purchase widgets and customer storefront front-ends.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Halo Media LLC
January 1, 2024 - Present
Architected and maintained Next.js/React frontends across Aptia (One Portal) and Ticket Socket micro-frontends. Contributed to the aptia-uds-ui internal Design System monorepo (Nx) by building reusable component packages (uds-ui-tokens, uds-ui-react) and semantic Tailwind theme pipelines. Led typography migration and mobile-first responsiveness across 10+ core UI components to support 320px to 1440px+ viewports. Integrated Stripe payments, Seats.io seating maps, and feature-flagged live chat widgets in modular layers. Pioneered AI-augmented development workflows (Claude and Antigravity agents) for automated code audits, Figma-to-code implementations, and visual regression testing to improve UI reliability.
Senior Front-End Developer at CoderHouse
February 1, 2022 - October 1, 2023
Spearheaded a full legacy-to-modern stack migration to Vue.js 3+ and Nuxt.js for CoderHouse’s online education platforms serving hundreds of thousands of students across Latin America, improving initial page load by ~35% and boosting SEO rankings. Designed and built a shared cross-app Vue.js component library, reducing new feature development time by ~30% across four product squads.
Senior Frontend Developer at CoderHouse
February 1, 2022 - October 1, 2023
Led a redesign and legacy migration by moving the platform to Vue.js 3 and Nuxt.js, improving initial load performance and SEO. Designed and built a shared cross-app Vue.js component library to unify visual identity and reduce new feature development time by ~30%. Partnered with UX/UI designers in Figma to translate wireframes into pixel-perfect, high-performing interfaces.
Front-End Engineer at Rappi
July 1, 2019 - February 1, 2022
Architected a scalable white-label delivery platform enabling hundreds of merchants to customize digital storefronts and process thousands of daily transactions, recognized with Rappi’s company-wide “Golden Moustache” award for highest business impact. Built and maintained a React shared component library across web squads, supporting checkout, payments, and restaurant storefront flows. Reduced production regressions by ~20% by implementing comprehensive unit and integration test suites using Jest and React Testing Library.
Frontend Engineer at Rappi
July 1, 2019 - February 1, 2022
Architected a scalable white-label delivery platform enabling hundreds of merchants to customize their digital store front ends and process large volumes of daily transactions, receiving company-wide recognition (“Golden Moustache”) for highest business impact. Built and maintained shared React component libraries used across web squads, supporting checkout, payments, and restaurant storefront flows. Reduced production regressions by ~20% by implementing comprehensive unit and integration test suites using Jest and a React testing library.
Senior Frontend Developer at Rappi
July 1, 2019 - February 1, 2022
Built and maintained critical, high-volume user flows for Restaurants, Checkout, and Payments using React and Next.js at scale. Developed a reusable, scalable component library with Styled Components and React Hooks to ensure UI consistency across squads. Improved stability and reliability by implementing unit/integration tests with Jest and React Testing Library, reducing production regressions. Built a custom merchant portal for restaurant owners to manage branding, accounts, and web store settings.
Front-End Engineer at A G 2 Technology LLC
February 1, 2015 - July 1, 2019
Built and evolved a print-on-demand product configurator embedded in Office Depot’s website, supporting a growing catalog of customizable products (e.g., business cards) with live print preview. Migrated the module stack from vanilla JavaScript to AngularJS and then to React over four years, optimizing rendering performance and legacy browser compatibility, reducing configurator load time by ~40%.
Frontend Engineer at A G2 Technology LLC
February 1, 2015 - July 1, 2019
Built and evolved a print-on-demand product configurator embedded in Office Depot’s website, supporting a growing catalog of customizable products (e.g., business cards) with live print previews. Migrated the module’s stack from vanilla JavaScript to AngularJS to React over four years. Optimized rendering performance and improved legacy browser compatibility, reducing configurator load time by ~40%.
Senior Frontend Developer at AG2 Technology LLC
February 1, 2015 - July 1, 2019
Architected an interactive browser-based print-on-demand product configurator using AngularJS, SASS, and JavaScript (ES6+), integrated into core client web platforms. Optimized rendering performance and legacy browser compatibility while interfacing with Glassfish backend services to handle complex print specifications in real time.
Front-End Development (roles in early career) at Belatrix Software
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2014
Performed early front-end development work and contributed to system analysis initiatives including database migration and enterprise system implementation as part of front-end and systems roles.
Front-End Development (early experience) at Belatrix Software
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2014
Worked in front-end development and contributed to system-related efforts including database migration and enterprise systems implementation as part of early career roles.

Education

Information Systems Engineer at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN FRM)
January 11, 2030 - July 31, 2026
Information Systems Engineer at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN FRM)
January 11, 2030 - September 22, 2026
Systems Analyst at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN FRM)
January 11, 2030 - September 22, 2026

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, Education, Retail, Professional Services