Summary
Alden Brown is a Senior Front-End Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building performant, scalable web and mobile interfaces. He specializes in React/JSX, TypeScript, React Native and GraphQL, and has a track record of rapidly mastering new ecosystems—learning React Native in 30 days to deliver a core feature that helped reach 1,000 paid subscribers ahead of schedule. At Kinship he led a small team to implement a unified design system with Supernova and authored token naming conventions that standardized UI patterns across products. He also drives quality through Jest-led testing initiatives and has experience building reusable component libraries with bit.dev and Storybook. Prior work includes full-stack and CMS engineering for enterprises like Nike (AEM/CQ5), and he has delivered dynamic data visualizations using Recharts and Leaflet for enterprise applications. Alden combines pragmatic product focus with a knack for accelerating team adoption of tooling and best practices.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Technology, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Technology at University of Central Florida