James Mejia

Frontend & Design
hi@mejiaj.mozmail.com

Hi!

Hello! I’m a Frontend and UI Engineering leader of 13+ years. I've built fast, accessible systems that transform the way industries build and maintain digital products. I have a collaborative, curious approach to leadership, and I genuinely enjoy learning from the people around me.

Experience

  1. Bixal

    Principal Frontend Engineer
    October 2024 - Present

    Lead teams in delivering accessible, fast, and user-friendly digital products. Outside of code, I mentor and manage engineers, help with hiring, and establish best practices.

    Recognized by stakeholders for proactively improving work culture and raising engineering standards.

    Lead Frontend Engineer
    February 2023 - October 2024

    Led engineering for Digital.gov and USWDS, turning product goals into technical roadmaps and raising engineering quality through documentation, standards, and testing.

    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

    Part of a distributed team for a leading Drupal agency, designing and building mobile-first products for clients across industries using Drupal, WordPress, React, and React Native.

    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

    Part of a small dev team managing 30+ sites serving hundreds of thousands of users monthly. Collaborated with teams to deliver mobile-first designs and progressive enhancement techniques.

Specialties
  • Semantic HTML5, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript
  • Accessibility (Section 508 & WCAG AA)
  • Design Systems
  • Performance & SEO Optimization
  • UI & Mobile-first design
Style & Design
  • Tailwind
  • Browser-based prototyping
  • Figma, Photoshop, Sketch
Tools & Frameworks
  • Frameworks: React, Lit Web Components
  • Build: Vite, Webpack, GulpJS, ESBuild
  • Component libraries: StorybookJS, Fractal
  • Static Sites: AstroJS, Hugo, Jekyll, 11ty
  • Testing: Vitest, Mocha, Pa11y
  • Templates: Twig, Nunjucks, Liquid
  • CMS: Drupal, WordPress, Headless (w/ GraphQL API's)
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, CircleCI
Project Management
  • Agile, Scrum
  • Trello, Jira, GitHub Projects
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
Outreach
Drupal GovCon 2025
Led a half-day workshop on creating your own design system.
Drupal GovCon 2024
Led a half-day workshop on rapid prototyping in Drupal with USWDS, StorybookJS, and Twig.
Drupal GovCon 2023
Presented a session on advanced USWDS techniques and led a half-day workshop that taught both basic and advanced USWDS techniques.
Drupal GovCon 2021
Presented on the future of the USWDS.