Juan Rojas

Senior Front-End Developer (Shopify, CMS, Nextjs)

Caraway Home • Full-time

Aug 2024 - Present • 2 yrs

I work as a Frontend Engineer focused on building high-performance, scalable, and customer-facing web experiences in an e-commerce, direct-to-consumer environment. On a daily basis, I work with Hydrogen (React/Next.js), TypeScript, Stylex, Contentful, and Vercel, contributing to modern headless commerce architectures and performance-driven frontends. Key responsibilities and impact: - Played a key role in the migration from Gatsby.js to Next.js, ensuring a smooth transition while maintaining performance, scalability, and code quality. - Designed, built, and optimized reusable React and Next.js components, leveraging strong TypeScript practices for maintainable and scalable solutions. - Translated Figma designs into responsive, accessible, and pixel-accurate UI components, delivering seamless user experiences across devices. - Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams (design, product, and engineering) to deliver robust, customer-focused solutions. - Conducted code reviews and QA, promoting best practices, clean architecture, and high development standards. - Actively identified performance bottlenecks and implemented improvements to enhance overall site efficiency and user experience.

Senior Shopify Plus Engineer

Acid Labs • Full-time

Jun 2023 - Nov 2024 • 1 yr 5 mos

Designed and maintained scalable, high-performing e-commerce applications utilizing modern web technologies and frameworks, ensuring robust and secure solutions tailored to client and business requirements. Customized and extended Shopify platform functionality to meet unique business needs through Liquid templating, custom theme development, app integrations, and utilization of REST and GraphQL APIs. Led the integration of Oracle Fusion with Shopify Apps, optimizing data flow and user experiences between systems. Conducted in-depth code reviews and troubleshooting, identifying and resolving bugs while upholding best practices and high-quality code standards. Performed rigorous QA testing to ensure performance consistency and responsiveness across key devices and browsers. Stayed informed of emerging e-commerce and Shopify technology trends, proactively applying insights to enhance development practices and deliver state-of-the-art solutions. Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to improve development processes, driving project milestones by mitigating roadblocks and adapting strategies based on evolving conditions. Qualifications & Expertise: Proven expertise as a Full Stack Developer with 6+ years of experience in e-commerce development, including in-depth proficiency with Shopify Liquid, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and modern web frameworks. Strong command of backend technologies such as Node.js, enabling robust server-side architecture.

BairesDev

BairesDev • Full-time

Apr 2021 - Apr 2023 • 2 yrs

CAN - Client & USA - Client Fully focused on customer requirements, working directly with Liquid, JavaScript, Shopify Private Apps, Shopify Script, BootStrap 5, JQuery, ReactJs, VueJS, Html5, Css3, and more. At this stage I have managed to develop a very interesting vehicle viewer that helped me to improve my skills a lot since it was my first time creating an app for Shopify and I managed to learn many that not only made reference to customization. In charge of integrating apps and managing a web portal with Shopify and PHP.Developing an online store focusing on the delivery logistics. Technologies used: Shopify, Shopify Script, Shopify Private App, Shopify 2.0, PHP, JavaScript, ReactJS, VueJS, Liquid, JQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Bootstrap 5, Recharge, Klaviyo, Typeform, Langify, Metafields Security Courses: - Security Awareness Foundations ‎ - Don't Be Like Rick: Malware - Multi-Factor Authentication - Becoming a Human Firewall - Security Awareness Proficiency Assessment - Avoiding Security Risks for Developers