Carol Santos

About

Frontend engineer who leads high-impact refactors and rebuilds end-to-end, including migrating a legacy Next.js frontend to React + Vite and consolidating fragmented styling into a single MUI Joy design system. Has deep experience improving performance and maintainability in complex, data-heavy UIs (orders/financial pages, multi-step editing flows) through modularization, query optimization, and shared context patterns, with strong QA discipline for sensitive financial actions.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Led end-to-end frontend rebuild and set technical direction (legacy Next.js to React + Vite)
• Standardized UI stack by consolidating multiple styling approaches into a single MUI Joy design system
• Refactored complex React + TypeScript interfaces into modular, reusable components (tables/filters)
• Improved performance by tightening data queries and reducing unnecessary re-renders
• Architected shared data layer for multi-step flows using high-level context to eliminate redundant requests
• Strong QA and risk management for financial workflows (refund/void actions), including edge-case validation and controlled rollout
• Effective cross-functional collaboration with product/design to adjust UX for technical constraints without sacrificing usability

Reference Highlights

• Strong ownership of features
• Strong leadership
• Highly organized
• Consistently meets deadlines
• High-quality deliverables
• Effective cross-team coordination (especially with backend)
• Works efficiently around blockers and pivots when dependencies unblock
• Strong React and TypeScript capability
• Significant growth from junior to senior-level developer
• Not afraid to challenge others or herself
• Thorough, well-organized code
• Attention to detail
• Strong collaboration with product managers and designers
• Successfully delivered internal admin site to completion with high satisfaction
• Successfully rebuilt scanner app and matched design well
• Outstanding performance in fast-paced, iterative release environments
• Finishes tight-deadline work earlier than expected
• Has the drive, knowledge, and personality to lead a team
• Trusted to lead frontend for a core consumer-facing product