Sebastian Zapata
Senior Frontend Developer @BrightHR
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Frontend Developer @BrightHR
Manchester, GB
Directly mentoring a mid level developer on my team as well as providing support and assistance to other junior developers. We have regular 1-1 meetings which have helped boost her confidence and ability.Often run talks on important topics within our frontend guild, helping to share knowledge and improve the codebase.Creating various APIs using.NET, often in conjunction with coding the corresponding frontend components.I am the lead of various frontend initiatives within the guild to improve our repo, aiming to either eliminate tech debt or upgrade areas of the code, such as converting older JS files to TypeScript or rewriting old Enzyme tests into React Testing Library.Involved in the creation of technical tasks for large features, communicating with other key members of the team.Help to write components from scratch for our custom component library, discussing ideas with the UX team.Involved in the recruitment process of employees. Reviewing CVs, tech tasks and participating in interviews.Able to prioritise work well when made aware of live issues whilst currently working on an active feature.Collaborating with the principal frontend developers to improve the codebase quality, security and efficiency.
EDUCATION
Bristol Grammar School
A Level: Maths, Chemistry, Computing AS: Physics
University of the West of England
Robotics, Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT SEBASTIAN ZAPATA
I am a professional, fullstack web developer, focusing on frontend development using TypeScript, React and NextJs.I am passionate, skilled and open-minded! I like to see things through to completion, I am able to pick things up quickly and I make it my mission to learn things that I don\'t know to broaden my skill-set.I have previously been the lead frontend developer on projects, where I created initial wireframes which later became the full user interface, created & divided up pieces of work amongst the team, ran regular sprint ceremonies and trained up the junior members of the team.I have been in charge of testing, where I wrote unit tests for components I had made, API tests and UI tests too.Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have a job opening based in Central Manchester.Thank you
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