Brandon Rotkel
Senior Frontend Developer at Starbucks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Rotkel is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building performant, accessible web experiences for major brands including Starbucks, Blizzard, Kia, and Estée Lauder. He specializes in standards-compliant HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/TypeScript with deep expertise in React, Next.js and hybrid CMS integrations, and has repeatedly modernized legacy Drupal/jQuery stacks into component-driven architectures. Comfortable across the full delivery lifecycle, he authors team coding standards, mentors new hires, and has improved real-world metrics such as Lighthouse scores by 4x. He also brings backend and DevOps fluency—authoring OpenAPI specs, deploying Docker/Kubernetes on AWS and Azure, and instrumenting apps with New Relic—so front-end decisions align with operational needs. A designer at heart, he blends UX tools like Figma and Sketch with engineering rigor to prototype stakeholder-ready solutions that ship to production.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
General education, art and design, General education, art and design at Irvine Valley College
Github Skills (15)
toggle6
defaults5
yeoman4
css-variables4
css3
angular3
stream3
angularjs3
drupal3
yeoman-generator3
nodejs2
javascript2
nvm1
mobile-web1
paths1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
DianeOfTheMoon/shackfari
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
brotkel/fine-nothings-9
Nov 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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