Godwill Barasa
@godwillbarasa
Senior Frontend Engineer focused on performant, accessible, and scalable web experiences.
What I'm looking for
I am a Senior Frontend Engineer with 5+ years building performant, accessible, and scalable web platforms using modern frameworks like React, Vue, Angular, and TypeScript. I specialize in end-to-end delivery—from design systems and state management to API integration, CI/CD automation, and performance optimization.
I have led technical initiatives that improved reliability, reduced technical debt, and increased user engagement: handling traffic surges, achieving WCAG 2.1 accessibility compliance across multilingual products, and migrating high-traffic platforms to cloud-native deployments with Kubernetes and Terraform. I mentor engineers, drive code quality with comprehensive testing (Jest, React Testing Library), and iterate rapidly through A/B experimentation and data-driven feature improvements.
I seek to partner with cross-functional teams to build inclusive, high-performance products that scale globally, while fostering engineering best practices, observability, and continuous delivery to accelerate product growth.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Front End Engineer
Piedmont Global Language Solutions
May 2025 - Present (5 months)
Architected scalable React/Next.js applications using TypeScript and Tailwind to handle a 40% traffic surge while improving speed, fault tolerance, and cross-platform compatibility; reduced technical debt 35% and increased delivery predictability.
Software Engineer
Ogilvy Africa Kenya
Jul 2024 - May 2025 (10 months)
Engineered scalable Angular/TypeScript platforms supporting 500K+ monthly users with 99.9% uptime, automated CI/CD pipelines to halve deployment time, and extended multilingual WCAG 2.1 accessibility to 15+ languages, growing engagement 18%.
Senior Web Platform Engineer
Belva Digital Agency
Apr 2020 - Jun 2024 (4 years 2 months)
Architected and migrated high-traffic platforms to Angular/Universal on AWS with Kubernetes, supporting 1.2M+ monthly users and 99.95% reliability; designed REST/GraphQL APIs with Postgres and doubled release frequency via Terraform/GCP automation.
Mobile Platform Engineer
Legibra Agency
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year 3 months)
Built high-traffic Android apps with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, reducing support tickets 40% through crash reporting and diagnostics; developed Python backend services and GraphQL schemas with sub-200ms API responses and 99.9% availability.
Web Engineer Intern
Procter & Gamble
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018 (5 months)
Supported modernization of regional microsites aligned to global design systems and accessibility standards, implemented marketing automation integrations, and optimized campaign page performance for East African markets.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Bachelor of Business Information Technology, Business Information Technology
Completed a Bachelor of Business Information Technology program focusing on the intersection of business processes and information technology.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
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