About

Leon T. is a passionate and highly skilled Front-End developer with over 8 years of experience in React.js, Next.js, and Vue.js. He is entirely self-taught and self-motivated, with a strong focus on staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in the industry. Leon's interest in the field began at a young age, and he has since honed his skills to become an outstanding developer. Currently self-employed as a Senior JAM Stack and Front-End Engineer, Leon has extensive experience in developing new websites from scratch, including E-commerce, Real-estate, SPAs, and Dashboards using JavaScript Frameworks (eg: React.js, Next.js, Vue.js, etc) and CSS UI Frameworks or from scratch. He is also proficient in handling whole JAM stack projects like React/Next.js + SASS + Contentful/CraftCMS or similar stacks, updating websites with new designs, adding features, and making them mobile-responsive. Leon has excellent adaptive skills, enabling him to use third-party libraries and SDKs like SendBird, Zendesk, etc. Leon's main technologies include React/Next.js, Redux/Redux-saga, React-query, styled-components, Vue/Vuex, HTML/CSS, SASS/SCSS, Bootstrap 4, Tailwind CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery, Craft CMS, Contentful, Prismic, Shopify, and Wordpress. He is experienced in using various work environments like GitHub, Gitlab, Asana, Slack, Bitbucket, Jira, Trello, Basecamp, and agile methodologies like SCRUM and KANBAN. Leon is also proficient in design tools like Figma, Invision, Adobe XD, and Zeplin. Leon has previously worked as a Front End Web Engineer at Kickstand and a Senior JAM stack Engineer at Baal & Spots, where he built websites and web apps using React.js/Frontity/Next.js + Styled-component/SASS + CMS (like WordPress). He also used Typescript to make websites type-safe and worked on WordPress (Theme update, ACF, ...) projects to build UI. Leon holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Technology from the University of Toronto, where he graduated in 2014. His relevant experience in the industry is 9.87 years, and he has a strong technical skill set in Frontend, Web, Javascript, Typescript, ReactJS, Redux, VueJS,