Résumé
Damien Aries
SOFTWARE ENGINEER | FRONTEND & PRODUCT
Summary
Former hospitality leader turned AI-fluent front-end engineer with six years building customer-facing interfaces, bridging engineering, design, and product.
Professional Experience
Web Developer at iVisa.com
November 2021 - PresentFrontend-focused role at a SaaS travel e-commerce company, building customer-facing applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue 3 and Tailwind CSS within a Laravel stack.
- Led the development of a new streamlined 1-step checkout flow, improving conversion rates by 15% and reducing cart abandonment by 30%
- Collaborated closely with Product, Design, and engineering teams to design and ship features, using an in-house A/B testing framework to validate impact.
- Refactored and rebuilt the TailwindCSS layer for a major rebrand, translating Figma wireframes into pixel-perfect, responsive components.
- Conducted accessibility (WCAG), performance, and SEO audits, improving Core Web Vitals and contributing to a 25% YoY increase in organic search traffic.
- Shipped modular landing-page partials on an urgent timeline to support multiple new products, reducing customer friction and increasing conversions by 20%.
- Maintained code quality through code reviews, architecture discussions, and unit/E2E testing (Pest, Jest, Laravel Dusk).
- Reduced technical debt by auditing legacy code and building internal tooling to detect unused assets and improve frontend build performance.
- Worked in an Agile environment with cross-functional teams to prioritize and deliver features efficiently.
- Adopted AI-assisted developer tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, CodeRabbit) to modernize and expedite day-to-day development and code review workflows.
Freelance Developer
Focused on delivering high-quality web solutions with modern JavaScript frameworks, conversion optimization, and responsive design. Applied A/B testing principles, rapid prototyping, and close client collaboration to deliver features aligned with business goals.
Developed a responsive educational leadership institute website using Nuxt.js, Vue3 and TailwindCSS, featuring program information, application management, contact and interest forms. Emphasized accessibility, mobile-first design, analytics and clear information architecture to support the institute's data-driven whole-learner development mission.
- JudiBoisson.com2023
Led the complete migration of an outdated Magento 1 site to Shopify, managing data transfer, domain setup, and new storefront design. Improved conversion rates and elevated the user experience, resulting in over $30k in sales in the first month.
- CareyCorea.art2023
Built a mobile-first, accessible portfolio site using Vue3, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, and Sanity CMS, emphasizing responsive design and SEO optimization.
Developed a multi-page, performant video portfolio using Next.js, React, and CSS Modules, with seamless API integration (Vimeo, YouTube), optimizing Core Web Vitals and ensuring an engaging user journey.
Full Stack Developer at CONCEPT.APP
January 2021 - July 2021Early hire at an early-stage startup building a social platform with JavaScript, React, and Firebase. Front-end focused role with full-stack collaboration.
- Designed and built foundational UI features with React Hooks, prioritizing accessibility and responsive layouts for an improved user journey.
- Implemented a notification system using Websockets and Redux to support real-time user engagement.
- Collaborated on system design, database modeling, and Agile story organization in ClickUp to support rapid prototyping and iterative development.
- Worked closely with cross-functional teams to refine requirements and deliver production-ready features.
- Emphasized maintainable code practices with code reviews and modern JavaScript tooling (NPM, Webpack, Eslint).
Core Skills
Education & Self Learning
- FrontEnd Masters Path to senior developer(Feb 2025)
- Unity Learn Unity Certified Developer(In Progress)
- Udemy Web Development Bootcamp(2020)
- Udemy React Developer Bootcamp(2020)
- University of Nantes, France Bachelor of Computer Science