iVisa.com
2021—Front-end engineer
iVisa was my first full-time engineering role after changing careers. I joined with plenty still to learn, including Laravel and PHP, and one of my first assignments was building out an end-to-end test suite the application didn't really have yet.
Learning the codebase
What started as Dusk tests for a handful of high-volume application flows gradually became reusable testing infrastructure that let us cover more products, faster, as well as important workflows on the admin side. It was a good introduction to a large production codebase: learn how it works, find the patterns, and make the next problem easier to solve than the last one.
Working across the product
Five years later, my work touches most of that codebase. I still spend a lot of time in Vue and TypeScript, but regularly move through PHP, Laravel and the database depending on the problem. CSS and SEO-heavy work are two areas I've particularly become someone the team can rely on.
I've implemented projects like our redesigned checkout, consolidating a multi-step payment flow into a single screen while keeping the legacy experience running alongside it as an A/B test. The winning version improved conversion by 15% and reduced abandonment by 30%.
I also worked on a larger rebrand that meant rethinking how we used Tailwind across the site, moving to v4 and building a theming setup that could support both designs during another A/B test. And I've worked through four generations of our document-upload experience as we've changed how customers provide the files required for their applications.
Five years in
The biggest change over those five years is how I approach the work. I know the product and codebase well enough to work independently, move between layers when I need to, and fix things I find without every improvement needing to become a process first.