Sasha Bajzek

About Sasha Bajzek

I am a UI and frontend engineer with deep expertise in accessibility and inclusive design, working across product, design, and engineering to drive scalable, high-quality user experiences through close collaboration and technical leadership. I specialize in UI architecture, design partnership, and elevating teams through mentorship, accessibility advocacy, and thoughtful technical direction.You can check out some of my projects at sashabajzek.com or github.com/sashabajzek.

Experience

1. Senior Frontend Engineer

   SoFi

   Jun 2025 — Present

   I served as the dedicated embedded frontend engineer for the marketing organization, owning UI architecture and partnering with a sister engineering team to enable and deliver scalable React components, CSS architecture, animation, accessibility strategy, and rapid prototyping across multiple growth initiatives.• I partnered closely with design leadership, shaping UX direction and providing accessibility and interaction design guidance to ensure scalable, inclusive experiences across all logged-out surfaces.• I drove a ~50% reduction in total blocking time caused by AudioEye scripts by identifying and fixing underlying implementation issues and raised the organization’s accessibility maturity by educating web producers and engineers on sustainable accessibility practices.• I led multiple brand modernization initiatives including updating all logged-out pages to a new rounded-corner visual language and re-architecting the registration flow UI to align with evolving SoFi branding and establish reusable templates for future registration experiences.• I led the frontend development for the Galileo co-branded debit card program, partnering with design to create scalable, theme-able landing page templates that support rapid partner onboarding while preserving brand consistency.

Education

• Virginia Tech

  MS, Civil Engineering

  2011 — 2013

• Illinois Institute of Technology

  BS, Civil Engineering with Structural Engineering Speciality

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• Mathcad
• Jquery
• Geopak
• React
• Microsoft Office
• Html5
• Civil Engineering
• Structural Analysis
• Bentley Microstation
• Construction
• Sass
• Abaqus
• Bridge
• Computer-Aided Design (Cad)
• Road
• Structural Engineering
• Finite Element Analysis
• Earthquake Engineering
• Steel Design
• Sap2000
• Cad
• Surveying
• Engineering
• Angularjs
• Foundation Design
• Javascript
• Redux
• Risa
• Structural Dynamics
• Autocad
• Concrete
• Steel Structures
• Matlab
• Transportation Engineering
• Microstation
• Css