Summary
David Watson is a Senior Front End Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance, accessible web apps and design systems for enterprise-scale products. He excels in Angular (2–18+), React/Next.js and TypeScript, with deep expertise in front-end architecture, component libraries, performance tuning and WCAG-compliant UIs. David has led teams and shipped complex SPAs and dashboards that surface AI-driven insights and partner data, translating intricate back-end logic into clear, usable interfaces. He’s pragmatic about tooling—optimizing builds with Vite/Webpack, CI/CD, and leveraging AI assistants like Copilot and ChatGPT to boost productivity by up to 30%. Comfortable in fast-moving, product-focused environments, he pairs a product-minded approach with rigorous code quality, mentorship and 100+ code reviews to scale engineering practices. Based in West Greenwich, RI, he’s drawn to roles that demand solving hard UX and performance problems at scale.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer