JordanBallard.

Front-End & Design Engineer

Eastern Time/Remote

Practiced

Nine years shipping pixel-perfect web experiences in Next.js, React, and TypeScript. A passion for bringing great designs to life through code, and a proven track record of working closely with designers and stakeholders to execute their vision thoroughly. Advanced AI engineering skills with the ability to build and maintain complex full-stack AI-enabled systems. Extensive experience building and operating industry-leading consumer brands at scale.

Capable

Front End

TypeScriptReactNext.jsReact Native & ExpoHTMLCSSTailwindResponsive & mobile-firstCross-browserCore Web Vitals

Design

FigmaLogo & brand identityDesign systems & tokensStorybookComponent librariesMotion & interactionWCAG accessibilityTypographyIllustratorPhotoshop

AI-First

Claude CodeCodexCursorAgentic & multi-agent workflowsSubagent review pipelinesContext engineeringRAG & vector searchEvals & guardrails

Platform

Node.jsPostgresSupabaseHeadless CMSGraphQLRESTStripeWebhooksMapboxResend

Delivery

VitestPlaywrightJestReact Testing LibraryCI/CDVercelEASNetlifyDocker

Experienced

  1. Front-End Developer — Emprise Corporation

    Apr 2025 — Present
    • Extend and maintain a shared component library and design system in Storybook, holding visual and behavioral consistency across teams working in the same UI
    • Build features in a mission-critical React/TypeScript application, owning each from requirements through release
    • Write the unit, end-to-end, and API tests that measure every change — Vitest, Playwright, Mocha — so quality holds through delivery instead of being audited afterward

  2. Design Engineer & Founder — The Five Forty

    Mar 2026 — Present
    • Designed and built a local-commerce membership platform end to end: a Next.js 16 web app and a React Native (Expo) mobile app in one monorepo, sharing typed packages so design tokens and business rules stay identical across surfaces
    • Architected the data layer on Supabase Postgres with row-level security and column grants across a two-schema split, plus Deno Edge Functions for image processing and scheduled work
    • Integrated Stripe Checkout, subscriptions, and Connect for merchant payouts, reconciling out-of-order webhook events into billing state a customer can trust
    • Shipped transactional email through Resend and a self-issued VAPID web-push pipeline, with an outbox and health checks that measure delivery rather than enqueueing
    • Own deployment end to end: Vercel for web, EAS for native builds, versioned Supabase migrations, and a type-check / lint / test / build gate that runs before every push

  3. Full-Stack Developer & Director of Operations — Reveal MRI

    Aug 2023 — Apr 2025
    • Built the consumer-facing site for a pre-launch healthcare company from first pixel through public launch (Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind), under HIPAA constraint
    • Turned dense clinical and pricing information into screens first-time visitors could act on with confidence
    • Integrated a headless CMS over GraphQL with Incremental Static Regeneration, so a non-technical team could publish without a deploy
    • Communicated technical trade-offs to senior, non-technical stakeholders to align product, clinical, and operational priorities

  4. Front-End Developer — Outstand

    Nov 2017 — Aug 2022
    • Worked directly with UI/UX designers to translate high-fidelity Figma mockups into responsive pages, holding fidelity to the file through delivery
    • Maintained 20+ white-labeled sites serving 100,000+ agents as a themeable system rather than 20 one-off builds; headless CMS on Gatsby and Contentful

  5. Full-Stack Developer — Fantasy Garage

    Jan — Jul 2023
    • Designed and shipped a consumer web app on Next.js and Vercel; a wallet-auth purchase flow that felt routine to non-crypto users; a custom ERC-721 contract

  6. Front-End Developer — Immerge Technologies · Axon AI

    2016 — 2017
    • Client-services delivery end to end — scoping, estimating, designing, building. Earlier, React apps demonstrating proprietary AI models to prospective customers

  7. Co-Founder — Local Celebrity / Rebel Yell

    2004 — 2016
    • Scaled apparel brands to $10M+ annual revenue across 20+ countries, owning brand and design direction across 20 employees — the same brand-to-product throughline, before the medium was software

Trained

Gauntlet AI — AI Engineering Immersive

Apr — Jul 2026

RAG pipelines, agentic and multi-agent workflows, context engineering, evaluation suites, MCP.

General Assembly — Web Development Immersive

Mar — Jun 2016
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