Frankie Benevides
Frontend Web Developer at SmartPak
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarFrankie Benevides is a Portland-based Frontend Web Developer with 14 years of professional experience and over two decades designing and building user-focused interfaces. He specializes in clean, maintainable front-end systems that bridge Design and Development, emphasizing UX, accessibility, and performance over unnecessary complexity. Frankie has contributed to prominent web-component projects like Polymer and material-web, improving usability, modernizing APIs, and boosting PWA performance and Lighthouse scores. As a former consultant and team lead he’s built modular HTML build kits and mentored teams integrating front-end frameworks into large CMS ecosystems. Known for precision and a visual-arts sensibility, he excels at translating design intent into pragmatic, scalable implementations that prioritize the user.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (31)
lit-element10
javascript10
scripting10
css10
polymer10
bash10
web-components10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
ui-design10
uid10
lit-html10
front-end-development10
pwapp10
build-automation10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PolymerElements/app-layout
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
App layout elements
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 278 commits, 177 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Frankie primarily contributed to the development of front-end components for app layouts. Their work involved creating and modifying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code, with a focus on Polymer elements. The user's commits introduce new components like `x-drawer-layout`, `x-header`, and `x-toolbar`, while also updating demo applications to showcase the usage of these elements, improving the overall user interface design and functionality.
reactapp-layoutelementsjavascriptlayout
Polymer/shop
May 2016 - May 2019
The Shop app
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 85 commits, 35 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Frankie primarily focused on front-end development within the Shop application. They refactored code, updated the UI by modifying and adding elements, and integrated new features such as meta tags for social media. Additionally, the user made improvements to the application's structure by converting to class-based syntax and optimizing the import process. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving user experience and code maintainability.
reactshopshop-app
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