Will Lopez is a full-stack developer with over a decade of experience building and scaling SaaS platforms, micro-frontends, and distributed systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has led technical integrations at Intuit Mailchimp—driving Shopify, Wix and other platform launches—and contributed core features and GraphQL APIs to the open-source Reaction Commerce storefront and platform. Comfortable across React/Next.js, Node, PHP, Go, and platform tooling (Docker, RabbitMQ, MySQL), he blends hands-on implementation with writing detailed technical specifications to guide complex projects. Will is skilled at translating technical trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders and mentoring junior engineers to accelerate delivery. His open-source work includes front-end storefront composition and release/dependency management for Reaction’s example-storefront and development platform. Based in Houston, he brings a practical mix of release-minded DevOps experience and UI-first engineering that helps integrations ship reliably at scale.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at California State University-Long Beach
Example Storefront is Reaction Commerce’s headless ecommerce storefront - Next.js, GraphQL, React. Built using Apollo Client and the commerce-focused React UI components provided in the Storefront Component Library (reactioncommerce/reaction-component-library). It connects with Reaction backend with the GraphQL API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 503 commits, 133 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on developing the user interface components using React and Next.js. They added a custom server and implemented new pages and UI elements, demonstrating a strong understanding of React component composition. The user integrated Material UI components and set up a basic layout for the storefront. Through these commits, the user has shown proficiency in building and modifying the front-end components of a headless e-commerce storefront.
Reaction Platform is the quickest way to run Reaction (reactioncommerce/reaction) and dependent services—Reaction Admin (reactioncommerce/reaction-admin) and Example Storefront (reactioncommerce/example-storefront)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:5 releases, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Will's contributions primarily revolve around version bumping across multiple dependent projects. This involved modifying the `config.mk` file to update version numbers for `reaction-hydra`, `reaction`, and `example-storefront`. The consistent pattern of bumping versions suggests a role focused on release management and ensuring proper dependency management within the platform. This work directly impacts the build and deployment process of the reaction platform.
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Will Lopez - Full Stack Developer at REACTION COMMERCE, INC.