Loren Barrick
Lead Software Engineer at Hairstory
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLoren Barrick is a Lead Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years building high-impact front-end experiences and shipping production systems across startups and enterprise teams. Specializing in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and Node.js, Loren has repeatedly improved performance and developer velocity—from reducing time-to-interactive through custom bundling to launching reusable component libraries and Storybook. He has driven measurable business outcomes, including products that generated over $1M ARR, a File Request feature with 1.5M monthly uses, and tooling that sped claims decisions and saved millions for insurers. Loren also champions quality engineering, introducing testing practices that raised coverage to 80–90% and gating commits with husky hooks. Comfortable across web and mobile stacks, he excels at turning complex workflows into clear UIs and building close-knit, problem-solving teams. A detail often missed: he pairs product-minded frontend craft with backend integrations (APIs, Twilio, maps) to deliver end-to-end solutions that reduce operational friction.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack ReactorHigh School, High School at Mountain View High SchoolComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Thinkful
English
Github Skills (62)
javascript10
pluggable10
box-api10
typescript10
google-play10
react10
pocket9
react-native9
webdriver9
react-components9
ios9
windows9
expo9
scraper9
declarative9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
visylvius/raise-the-bar
May 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:255 commits, 252 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
Visylvius/portfolio-site
Feb 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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