James Mejia

Experience

1. Bixal

   Principal Frontend Engineer

   October 2024 - Present

   As a principal engineer, I lead teams to deliver accessible, fast, and user-friendly digital products. Outside of code, I mentor and manage engineers, help with hiring, and establish best practices.

   I'm recognized by stakeholders for proactively improving work culture and raising engineering standards.

   Lead Frontend Engineer

   February 2023 - October 2024

   As tech lead my role involved finding practical long-term solutions to engineering problems while keeping performance and accessibility in mind. I also helped set standards & best practices to ensure our work is high quality and robust.

   Frontend Engineer

   September 2018 - February 2023

   I ensured the websites we produced were accessible, mobile-friendly, and fast. We mainly worked for the Federal government. We apply the best tech for the job, some of those might include Drupal, React, or both.

2. Third & Grove

   Frontend Engineer

   September 2015 - September 2018

   I was part of a distributed team for a leading Drupal agency. We worked with clients of all shapes and sizes, across several industries. We designed and developed mobile-first websites using Drupal and WordPress. The work was fast-paced and being remote you have to be disciplined, take initiative, and especially communicative.

3. Spectrum Brands

   Web Designer

   2012-2015

   I was part of a small development team that was responsible for 30+ brand websites. Household brands such as: Rayovac, Black & Decker Appliances, and Remington Hair Products.

   I introduced and implemented (at the time) novel techniques like styleguide driven-development, mobile-first design, and SCSS into our workflow. This helped us tremendously in creating maintainable, mobile-friendly, websites that serve hundreds of thousands of people efficiently.