Summary
Karen Ortiz is a Frontend Engineer II based in New York with nine years of experience building user-focused web interfaces and bridging design, product, and engineering. She has a proven track record modernizing front-end stacks—adding TypeScript support, restructuring Storybook, and improving accessibility and state management on consumer-facing pages. Comfortable across React, Redux, Vue.js and AngularJS, she pairs polished UI craft with practical backend familiarity from full-stack training and freelance projects using Sequelize/Postgres. Her background leading EDI operations and logistics early in her career gives her a pragmatic, process-oriented approach to shipping features and improving team workflows. Focused on continual growth, she excels at turning design intent into efficient, maintainable components that scale.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Front-End Web Development, Front-End Web Development at General Assembly
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Fullstack Academy
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics at SUNY New Paltz
English, Spanish