Rich McLAUGHLIN

Senior Front-End Engineer

• Front-end lead for the Data Management team, overseeing the ingestion and transformation of all incoming data. Develop features catering to customers and internal support staff, focusing on optimizing the flow and schema of the data to ensure seamless consumption by the rest of the platform.
• Led migration of the Angular application to an Nx monorepo structure, resulting in significant enhancements to local and pipeline execution times for build, test, and lint tasks. Implemented the use of lazy-loaded modules, improving the run-time performance of the application.
• Architected and implemented the transition to NgRx for state management, scoping data to the application, module, or component level. This minimized redundancy and API calls, improving performance.
• Responsible for Angular and npm dependency upgrades and management, dedicating approximately 80% of time to feature deliverables and 20% to architecture tasks.

Front-End Architect

• Completed initial build of company's internal UI framework and style guide, provided ongoing support by adding new features and enhancing existing functionality
• Led Angular migration project which spanned 4 products and 15 development teams by rewriting our internal UI framework and training teams in the new stack
• Architected the company's first single-page app in AngularJS, the first built with RESTful APIs
• Integrated UI apps into our CI/CD pipeline, initially with Grunt and later with webpack & Angular CLI
• Implemented best practices for code quality such as unit testing (Jasmine/Karma) and static code analysis (ESLint)
• Trained and supported developers by running workshops in a bi-weekly UI forum. Example topics include modularization, web components, and Chrome Dev Tools
• Served as technical expert for long-term strategy planning, working with UX and product management to migrate legacy products into new platform, while still delivering new features

Sr. Software Engineer

• Began career as a full-stack Java developer working on a quoting web application for insurance agents
• Shifted to primarily front-end when creating company's first web app for the general public, focusing heavily on jQuery UI and AJAX

University of Michigan

Intro to Web Components

Intro to Webpack

From Mockup to Markup

Building Your Personal Website

Creating a Styleguide

Ionic and Firebase

Legend of Canvas

Ionic and AngularJS

JavaScript Lightweight Applications

Legend of Canvas

Best Front-End Post • AirPair 2015 Writing Competition

Published in Frontend Focus #233

Getting Started with Chrome DevTools

Tips for Dealing with Developer Stress