I am a frontend-focused Full Stack Developer with 8+ years building responsive, user-centric web applications. I specialize in translating UI/UX designs into production-ready interfaces using React and integrating RESTful APIs, with breadth across frontend, backend services, and SQL databases. I thrive in remote, fast-moving teams and enjoy solving complex problems while collaborating closely with product and design to deliver incremental value. I am driven by clean code, strong user experiences, and measurable results. My approach combines scalable architecture, client-side performance optimizations, and robust testing to ensure reliable releases and happy users.

Shane West

I am a frontend-focused Full Stack Developer with 8+ years building responsive, user-centric web applications. I specialize in translating UI/UX designs into production-ready interfaces using React and integrating RESTful APIs, with breadth across frontend, backend services, and SQL databases. I thrive in remote, fast-moving teams and enjoy solving complex problems while collaborating closely with product and design to deliver incremental value. I am driven by clean code, strong user experiences, and measurable results. My approach combines scalable architecture, client-side performance optimizations, and robust testing to ensure reliable releases and happy users.

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I am a frontend-focused Full Stack Developer with 8+ years building responsive, user-centric web applications. I specialize in translating UI/UX designs into production-ready interfaces using React and integrating RESTful APIs, with breadth across frontend, backend services, and SQL databases. I thrive in remote, fast-moving teams and enjoy solving complex problems while collaborating closely with product and design to deliver incremental value.

I am driven by clean code, strong user experiences, and measurable results. My approach combines scalable architecture, client-side performance optimizations, and robust testing to ensure reliable releases and happy users.

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Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer (Frontend-Focused Full Stack) at Boston Consulting Group
November 1, 2022 - November 1, 2025
Delivered an end-to-end Online Tax Return Submission platform by building a responsive React UI and integrating 24 RESTful APIs for authentication, form submission, and tax history retrieval. Translated UI/UX designs into reusable React components and page templates, improving consistency across core flows (login, filing, review, submit) and reducing rework during iterations. Implemented client-side validation, error handling, and loading states to improve usability and reduce failed submissions. Implemented performance optimizations in the React app (code-splitting, memoization, lazy loading) to improve page responsiveness for data-heavy screens. Partnered with backend engineers to define API contracts and payload schemas, accelerating integration and minimizing breaking changes through versioned endpoints and documentation. Built data-driven dashboards by consuming RESTful APIs and presenting metrics (submission status, error rates, processing stages). Strengthened release quality by
Senior Software Engineer at RTX
September 1, 2018 - October 1, 2022
Developed web application features with a frontend-first approach using React, delivering responsive UI modules aligned to UX specifications and accessibility expectations. Implemented and consumed RESTful APIs to integrate frontend workflows with backend services, improving reliability through standardized error responses and retry-safe operations. Designed and optimized relational data access patterns using SQL, improving query performance for reporting and operational screens. Improved application performance by profiling UI rendering and API latency, then optimizing client-side state updates and backend endpoints for faster end-to-end interactions. Maintained source control hygiene with Git(feature branches, pull requests, peer reviews), improving collaboration across distributed engineering teams. Troubleshot full-stack issues across UI, API, and database layers to support production stability; created runbooks and debugging guidelines. Coordinated with stakeholders to refine requ
Full Stack Developer at ScienceSoft
July 1, 2015 - August 1, 2018
Built customer-facing web application modules with modern frontend patterns using React, focusing on responsive layouts and intuitive user flows. Developed backend services and integrated RESTful APIs to support core product workflows, ensuring clean separation of concerns and maintainable interfaces. Implemented database-backed features using SQL for transactional operations and reporting, improving data integrity with constraints and consistent schemas. Collaborated with designers and QA to translate UI/UX requirements into shippable features, improving usability through rapid feedback cycles. Used Git for version control and team collaboration, maintaining clean commit history and reliable release branches.

Education

Master’s degree of Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2017
Bachelor’s degree of Computer Science at East Central University
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2015

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Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services