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Kwame Ashbury

Senior Frontend Developer | React & TypeScript | Cut LCP 62% on a 4M-user app

  • Austin, TX
  • kwame.ashbury@example.com
  • +1 (512) 555-0188
  • linkedin.com/in/your-name

Summary

Senior Frontend Developer with eight years building accessible, high-performance React applications for B2C and B2B platforms. Owns the web frontend for a 4M-user product, pairing design-system work with relentless Core Web Vitals optimization that lifted checkout conversion 18%.

Work Experience

Senior Frontend Developer

Aug 2021 – Present

Brightwave Commerce · Austin, TX

  • Re-architected the checkout flow in Next.js and reduced Largest Contentful Paint 62%, lifting mobile conversion 18% across 4M monthly users.
  • Built a shared component library used by 6 product teams, cutting new-page build time from 5 days to 1.5 days and eliminating 40% of duplicated CSS.
  • Raised automated test coverage from 31% to 86% with Jest and React Testing Library, dropping production frontend incidents 47% year over year.

Frontend Developer

May 2018 – Jul 2021

Halcyon Analytics · Denver, CO

  • Migrated a 120-screen dashboard from AngularJS to React and TypeScript, shrinking the JS bundle 38% and median render time from 1.9s to 0.7s.
  • Shipped a WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility overhaul that raised the Lighthouse accessibility score from 64 to 98 and unblocked a $1.2M enterprise contract.
  • Introduced React Query for server-state caching, cutting redundant API calls 55% and trimming time-to-interactive 1.3s on the analytics homepage.

Junior Frontend Developer

Jun 2016 – Apr 2018

Pinepoint Media · Denver, CO

  • Built 25+ responsive marketing pages in React that improved average session duration 22% across mobile and desktop.
  • Optimized image delivery and lazy-loading, cutting average page weight from 3.4MB to 1.1MB and bounce rate 14%.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2012 – 2016

University of Texas at Austin

Skills

Core competencies

  • React & TypeScript
  • Web Performance
  • Design Systems

Technical

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • GraphQL
  • Jest & RTL

Soft Skills

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Code Review & Mentoring
  • Technical Communication
  • Product Sense

Certifications

  • Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate · Meta (Coursera), 2022
  • JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures · freeCodeCamp, 2019

Languages

  • English · Native
  • French · Professional working proficiency

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Frontend Developer resume summary examples

Pick the one closest to your level and replace the specifics with your own.

  • Entry level

    Frontend developer with a bootcamp background and a year of experience building React and TypeScript interfaces. Shipped a responsive account dashboard used by 4,000 customers and raised its Lighthouse accessibility score from 72 to 96. Looking for a team that values code review, design collaboration and steady growth.

  • Mid level

    Frontend developer with five years building customer-facing web apps in React, TypeScript and Next.js. Cut a storefront's Largest Contentful Paint from 4.1 to 2.2 seconds and led its move to a shared component library. Works closely with designers and backend engineers and writes tests that keep releases calm.

  • Senior

    Senior frontend engineer with ten years building large web applications. Leads architecture for a design system used by six teams, drives performance and accessibility standards and mentors engineers through code review. Balances technical depth with product sense and has a record of shipping features that lift conversion.

Common mistakes on a frontend developer resume

  • Listing frameworks instead of shipped interfaces

    Fix: React, Vue and Angular side by side look like a tutorial list. Name the product surface you built, such as a checkout flow or a design system, the traffic it served and the metric it moved.

  • Ignoring performance and Core Web Vitals

    Fix: Hiring managers look for evidence you measure the browser. Include Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, bundle size or Lighthouse scores before and after your changes.

  • Leaving accessibility off the page

    Fix: Accessibility is a daily expectation now. Add WCAG 2.2 AA fixes, screen reader testing, keyboard navigation or audits you ran, and say how many components or pages you brought into compliance.

  • Hiding collaboration with design and backend

    Fix: Frontend work rarely stands alone. Mention working from Figma specs, agreeing API contracts with backend teams and reviewing pull requests, so readers see how you fit into a product team.

What should a frontend developer resume include?

A frontend developer resume should open with a two or three line summary of your focus, then show each role as results rather than duties. Name the skills the posting asks for, such as JavaScript, TypeScript and React. Start bullets with verbs like Built, Shipped and Optimized, and give each one a number where you honestly have one. If you hold a credential such as Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate, list it in its own section.

Core languages and frameworks

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Redux

Styling and design systems

  • Tailwind CSS
  • Sass
  • CSS Modules
  • Storybook
  • Figma handoff
  • Design tokens
  • Responsive design

Performance and quality

  • Core Web Vitals
  • Lighthouse
  • Webpack
  • Vite
  • Jest
  • Cypress
  • React Testing Library
  • Code splitting

Accessibility and standards

  • WCAG 2.2
  • ARIA
  • Screen reader testing
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Semantic HTML
  • Cross-browser testing

Delivery and APIs

  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • Agile
  • Pull request review

Action verbs

  • Built
  • Shipped
  • Optimized
  • Refactored
  • Migrated
  • Launched

Certifications

  • Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate
  • JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures (freeCodeCamp)

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Frontend Developer resume bullet examples

The numbers are illustrative. Keep the structure (verb, action, measurable result) and use figures you can back up.

  • Reduced Largest Contentful Paint on the product page from 4.1 to 2.2 seconds by lazy loading images and splitting the main bundle.
  • Shrunk the JavaScript bundle by 38 percent by removing unused dependencies and moving to dynamic imports.
  • Built a React and Storybook component library with 45 components adopted by six product teams, cutting new screen build time by a third.
  • Brought the signup flow to WCAG 2.2 AA, fixing focus order and labels and cutting reported accessibility issues from 31 to 3.
  • Rewrote the checkout form with TypeScript and server validation, raising completion rate by 6 percent over an eight-week test.
  • Migrated a legacy jQuery admin screen to React over two sprints with no regression bugs reported after launch.
  • Added Cypress end-to-end tests for the five most used flows, catching 14 regressions before they reached production.
  • Implemented a responsive layout system that made the web app usable on phones, lifting mobile session length by 18 percent.
  • Partnered with designers on a Figma token pipeline that synced colors and spacing, ending recurring style mismatches in review.
  • Improved Interaction to Next Paint on a search page from 380 to 150 milliseconds by debouncing input and memoizing result lists.

Salary (official data)

Official pay statistics for the occupation that matches this role, copied exactly as each statistics office publishes them.

  • United States

    Median gross annual pay: $92,650 a year · Median gross hourly pay: $44.54 an hour

    Middle half of earners: $64,230 to $126,230 · 10th to 90th percentile: $48,100 to $162,290

    Official occupation: Web Developers (SOC 15-1254)

    Gross wages of employees in all industries, before deductions; excludes the self-employed.

    Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Public domain.

  • United Kingdom

    Median gross annual pay: £59,863 a year

    Middle half of earners: £43,509 to £82,149 · 10th to 90th percentile: £33,352 to £114,051

    Official occupation: Programmers and software development professionals (SOC 2020 2134)

    Gross annual pay of full-time employee jobs (employees on adult rates in the same job for more than a year).

    Provisional figures: the publisher revises them a year later.

    Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, tax year to 5 April 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

  • Canada

    Median gross hourly pay: CA$ 50.48 an hour · Median gross weekly pay: CA$ 1,923 a week

    Official occupation group: Professional occupations in applied sciences (except engineering) (NOC 2021 212)

    Usual gross wages of full-time employees (30 hours or more a week) at their main job, including tips, commissions and bonuses.

    Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0417-01 Employee wages by occupation, annual, 2025. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

  • Ireland

    Mean gross annual pay of the whole major group: €70,522 a year

    Major occupation group: Professionals (ISCO-08 2)

    Mean gross annual earnings, including bonuses, for the whole major occupation group in enterprises with 10 or more employees. Eurostat publishes no median by occupation.

    Source: Eurostat, Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_28), 2022, CC BY 4.0. Ruubu matched the role to an ISCO-08 major group; Eurostat is not responsible for this use of its data.

Figures cover everyone in the official occupation, at every experience level. They are not a job offer, a forecast or a Ruubu estimate. Ruubu matches each role to the closest official occupation. An official occupation can include related jobs.

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Frontend Developer resume questions

How long should a frontend developer resume be?

One page for under ten years of experience. Engineers are scanned fast, so lead each bullet with a shipped outcome and a number rather than a list of frameworks.

What metrics should a frontend developer resume include?

Core Web Vitals improvements, bundle-size reductions, page-load and render times, conversion lift, accessibility scores and test coverage. Pair each action with a measurable result.

Which keywords should a frontend resume include for an ATS?

Mirror the job post: React, TypeScript, Next.js, responsive design, REST/GraphQL, CI/CD and WCAG. Use the exact tool names rather than vague phrases like front-end technologies.

Should I include a GitHub or portfolio link on a frontend developer resume?

Yes. A live portfolio or a deployed project shows your work faster than any bullet. Choose two projects that load quickly, work on mobile and have clean code. Add one line about what each does and the stack behind it.

How do I show design skill as a frontend developer?

Mention the design systems you built or extended, Figma collaboration and details such as motion, spacing or responsive behavior. Link to a project where the interface quality is visible. Keep this to a line or two so the resume still reads as engineering.

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