Zachary Taylor

Led delivery of multilingual, responsive web experiences using Next.js, React, HTML, and CSS, ensuring consistent UX across desktop and mobile with measurable improvements in Core Web Vitals (LCP ~25%). Implemented i18n architecture with locale-aware routing and translation dictionaries; typography safeguards for non-Latin scripts. Built a reusable component library in TypeScript with design-token-driven styling, enabling pixel-accurate replication of reference designs and reducing UI defects by ~35%. Hardened cross-browser compatibility (Safari/iOS, Chrome, Edge, Firefox) via Playwright matrices and targeted CSS fixes, reducing production rendering issues by ~40%. Improved SEO/indexing for localized pages using Next.js SSR/SSG, canonical/hreflang, structured data, and metadata generation; increased organic landing-page impressions by ~18%. Introduced an LLM-assisted localization QA workflow (glossary enforcement, punctuation/number checks, string-length risk scoring) reducing translat

Developed customer-facing web flows using React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS; implemented SEO-friendly Next.js landing experiences with performance budgets, image optimization, and route-level code-splitting, reducing median page load time by ~30%. Built backend services and BFF endpoints with Node.js/Express, applying validation, rate limiting, and secure headers per OWASP guidance. Designed data models and queries across PostgreSQL and Redis for session/content caching, improving p95 API latency by ~20%. Created automated end-to-end coverage with Cypress and unit tests using Jest and React Testing Library, reducing escaped defects by ~25%. Instrumented observability with Sentry and OpenTelemetry; dashboards/alerts reduced time-to-diagnosis for front-end errors by ~35%. Collaborated with design/content to translate Figma specs into reusable React components, ensuring brand-consistent navigation.

Delivered interactive, content-driven web experiences using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, collaborating with designers to refine layout and navigation within existing project constraints. Built reusable UI components and admin tooling in React and Node.js, reducing duplicated effort across projects by ~30%. Integrated asset pipelines and optimized media delivery (image compression, lazy loading) to improve Core Web Vitals and reduce bandwidth usage by 20%+. Implemented analytics instrumentation and event tracking using JavaScript to measure engagement and guide iterative UX improvements.