Gary Acers
Senior Frontend Engineer (Contract) at Coinbase
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGary Acers is a Senior Frontend Engineer with over a decade of experience crafting performant, pixel-perfect interfaces for companies like Coinbase, Apple, OpenAI, and the Solana Foundation. He specializes in React, Next.js, and TypeScript, with deep expertise in component library architecture, Storybook documentation, and design handoffs from Figma and Sketch. Gary has repeatedly driven frontend refactors and caching strategies (SWR) to improve maintainability and load times, and he frequently translates research and data visualizations into production-ready components using Visx/D3. Comfortable in both agency and product contexts, he’s built CMS-driven systems integrating Contentful, Sanity, and GraphQL to empower content teams. Beyond code, he contributes UX-minded thinking to product design and developer handoff processes, lifting team standards through documentation and tooling. Based in New York, he blends a creative interactive-media background with rigorous engineering to solve complex, content-driven UI challenges.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media, BA, Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media at Temple UniversityMaster of Science, Integrated Digital Media, Master of Science, Integrated Digital Media at Polytechnic Institute of New York University 2008 - 2011Github contributions (1)
gacers/gnar-meter
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:35 commits in 1 month
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