Resume
Nick McNeany
Senior Frontend Engineer · Kildeer, IL
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Summary
Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building high-performance, user-facing web apps across cybersecurity, fintech, and healthcare. Specializes in UI modernization, reusable component libraries, and web accessibility, performance, and responsive design on high-traffic applications. Uses AI tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot daily to ship faster and experiment with new workflows. Experienced working cross-functionally with product, design, data science, marketing, and other teams to turn ideas into well-scoped, shippable features.
Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer, Ruby on Rails
- Lead modernization of a large-scale security operations platform, migrating from Turbolinks and jQuery-heavy views to Hotwire (Turbo and Stimulus), significantly improving performance and interactivity.
- Designed and built a reusable ViewComponent UI library, standardizing design patterns across the product and reducing duplication for the entire engineering team.
- Refactored jQuery-heavy features and embedded React apps into Hotwire-driven components, reducing JavaScript complexity.
- Migrated the build pipeline from Webpack to esbuild, cutting build times and simplifying the developer experience.
- Prioritize web accessibility standards across the products.
- Mentored developers on Hotwire best practices and accessibility standards, establishing front-end architecture guidelines.
- Participate in roadmap planning and backlog grooming with product and design partners.
Software Engineer II, Backend (Go and AWS)
- Developed API endpoints in Go, enabling AWS Lambda and third-party apps to process call center voice data.
- Optimized chatbot and IVR workflows, enhancing automated voice-based customer support interactions.
- Automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform, improving deployment efficiency.
Senior Frontend Engineer, Ruby on Rails and React
- Lead UI modernization for high-traffic consumer fintech Rails apps, CashNetUSA and NetCredit, converting HAML views into React apps.
- Built a reusable, multi-brand React component library with Material-UI and Jest, enabling consistent UX and faster feature delivery across product lines.
- Refactored Rails views into an API-driven React frontend architecture for improved maintainability.
- Implemented unit testing with Jest, optimizing front-end performance and stability.
- Mentored developers in modern React and Rails front-end best practices.
Frontend Developer II
- Managed and developed custom WordPress themes and plugins, ensuring brand consistency across 16 installations.
- Built HTML email templates, optimizing marketing campaigns for high conversion rates.
Frontend Developer
- Enhanced UX and UI with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript interaction patterns; optimized landing pages to increase engagement and conversion.
Developer education and community
Creator and Instructor: Ruby on Rails 8 and Hotwire: Build a Password Manager (opens in a new tab)
Created a highly rated course helping hundreds of engineers adopt modern Rails and Hotwire best practices.
Education
DePaul University
Eastern Illinois University
Skills
Frontend
JavaScript and TypeScript, React, Vue, React Native, HTML5 and CSS3, SCSS, Responsive design, Accessibility (WCAG), Tailwind, Bootstrap, Material UI, Vuetify, ERB and HAML
Frameworks and backend
Ruby on Rails, Hotwire (Turbo, Stimulus, Hotwire Native), ViewComponent, ActiveRecord, PostgreSQL, REST APIs and JSON, Go
AI tools
Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Daily use for feature work, refactoring, and automation
Tooling and testing
Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Storybook, esbuild and Webpack, Importmaps, RSpec and minitest, Capybara, Jest
Data visualization
Highcharts, Chart.js, Google Charts, Databricks