Alissa Bengtson

I’m a Front-End Engineer with 13+ years of experience building fast, polished, and accessible web experiences for high-traffic marketing and product websites. I bring a strong command of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and I’m hands-on with performance optimization, SEO, accessibility (WCAG), and API integration.

At Corel, I helped lead the front-end rebuild of global marketing websites serving 1M+ weekly visitors across brands like Parallels and WinZip. As one of two core full-time front-end developers on a lean team, I hand-coded pixel-perfect, responsive pages from Figma designs across multiple international domains.

I also contributed extensively to migrating the Parallels website from a legacy CMS to Django, updating hundreds of localized pages while maintaining WCAG accessibility standards. Along the way, I designed and built a reusable component library and shared CSS system to enforce design consistency across campaign and product pages—then partnered with UX, product, and QA to ship landing pages and marketing assets that improved engagement and conversion rates.

Now, I’m continuing to build and ship projects as a freelance front-end developer while pursuing full-time opportunities. I’m deepening hands-on experience with React and Next.js through active work like a Next.js weather app (OpenWeather API) and an AOL Instant Messenger revival UI (Firebase Auth and Firestore), using AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Claude, and ChatGPT to accelerate development and debug complex UI behavior.