Summary
Nate Van Der Vis is a UX designer and front-end engineer with a decade of experience designing and building web products from marketing sites to headless CMS-driven apps. He blends design and development to deliver measurable results—cutting content creation time from an hour to five minutes through internal tools and launching structured data + generative-AI features to boost user activation. Nate has led replatforming efforts, performance optimizations (build times from 35 minutes to under 2), and interactive front-end systems using React, Next.js, Sanity, and modern animation techniques. Comfortable as a freelancer and in product teams, he pairs practical engineering with user-centered design to ship resilient, reusable components. Outside work he DJs and programs radio shows, a creative thread that informs his taste for curated, detail-driven experiences.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Digital Media Design, Diploma, Digital Media Design at RRC Polytech
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame