Hello,

I'm Shakib

Software EngineerBoston, MA

Frontend Engineer

About

A little about who I am and what drives me.

Hey, I'm Shakib. I'm a Senior Frontend Engineer with 7+ years of experience building web applications and design systems that people actually enjoy using. I work primarily with TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Node.js, and I care a lot about performance, accessibility, and making the developer experience better for everyone on the team.

Most recently at Hydrow, I was one of three engineers responsible for the entire e-commerce platform. I led a full homepage redesign, wired up Shopify custom pixel tracking for better funnel visibility, and built out a typography system that finally made things consistent across the site. Before that, at Best Buy, I worked on the Product Details Page, which serves over 4 million users a day. I got to focus on performance improvements, A/B testing, and cutting deployment time by 6x with a GitHub Actions pipeline. And earlier at Newfold Digital, I built a library of reusable components and helped integrate Contentful CMS so the marketing team could ship updates without needing an engineer every time.

My Journey

I started out studying Computer Science in college, but after discovering web development through Codecademy, I took a year off to attend DevMountain, a software engineering bootcamp. It was a bet on myself that paid off. Hands-on, project-based learning suited me way more than lectures ever did, and it's still how I approach picking up new things today.

Outside of Work

I like building things for myself when I have spare time. LogTrade is a personal trade journal I built with React and Firebase, and Regexer is a small NPM utility library I've been maintaining since 2018. Lately I've been spending a lot of time experimenting with AI tooling and MCP workflows.

Work

Companies I've had the privilege of working with.

eCommerce Engineer
Hydrow
Mar 2025 - Mar 2026
Boston, MA · Full-time
- Owned end-to-end e-commerce platform (marketing, blogs, PDP, PLP, and checkout) as part of a small team of 3 engineers.
- Increased site engagement and conversion by leading a full homepage redesign and legacy page rebuild, optimizing for performance, accessibility, and scalability across CMS-driven layouts.
- Integrated Shopify custom pixel tracking, enabling full-funnel visibility across checkout flows and improving attribution accuracy and upsell targeting.
- Improved visual consistency and maintainability by implementing a scalable typography system across legacy and new pages without disrupting existing layouts.
TypeScriptReactNext.jsShopifyContentful CMSWeb PerformanceAccessibilityRudderStackVercelPlaywright
Frontend Engineer III
Best Buy
Mar 2022 - Nov 2024
Remote · Full-time
- Maintained and optimized 25+ mission-critical React components within the Product Details Page (PDP), serving 4M+ daily users, directly impacting revenue-critical user flows.
- Drove a 3% increase in customer engagement by collaborating with product, UX, and backend teams to redesign key product components using A/B testing and data-driven experimentation.
- Reduced core-components bundle sizes by 15% or more and improved load performance by implementing code splitting, lazy loading, and modern image optimization strategies.
- Led CI/CD transformation, reducing deployment time by 6X by building a self-service GitHub Actions pipeline.
JavaScriptTypeScriptCSS ModulesTailwind CSSReact.jsNext.jsGraphQLWebpackWeb PerformanceTest AutomationJestCypress
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Newfold Digital
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
Burlington, MA · Full-time
- Built and maintained 15+ reusable e-commerce UI components using Next.js, React, and Redux, streamlining feature development and enabling easier collaboration across teams.
- Improved the core single-page app by adding 50+ features & bug-fixes, along with comprehensive unit tests using Jest and Enzyme, to ensure usability of customer registration and checkout flow.
- Integrated Contentful CMS for dynamic product fetching, enabling marketing team updates without code releases.
- Partnered with backend teams to integrate new APIs and payment gateways to support scalable eCommerce operations.
Next.jsReactReduxSassWebpackJestEnzymeContentfulNode.jsGitJIRA
Software Engineer
Lexia Learning
Sep - Dec 2016 & Jun - Aug 2017
Concord, MA · Contract
- Built 20+ JSON schemas to validate and structure large, nested JSON objects, or lesson tasks for production-level reading software program
- Written various JavaScript functions or snippets to automate JSON file modifications to simplify and speed up application content updates
JavaScriptJSON SchemaGit

Projects

Selected personal and side projects I've built over the years.

Oct 2021 - Present

LogTrade

LogTrade is a personal journal for tracking daily stock trades online. Originally built using React and Firebase, it offered simple email/password authentication and responsive UI. Version 1.0.0 launched in October 2021 and is live. Currently, I’m migrating the app to Next.js with the App Router for better scalability and performance. I’m also switching to Clerk.dev for simpler client-side authentication, enabling built-in UIs and support for social logins. Alongside these changes, I’m implementing UI enhancements for a more modern look and adding new features like Google’s Speech-to-Text API and LLM integrations to let users manage trades more intuitively—quickly adding or removing trades without editing forms. These updates are part of the upcoming v2.0.0, planned for release in early to mid-2025, aimed at delivering a sleeker, smarter user experience.

ReactTailwindCSSWebpackFirebaseNetlifyClerk.devNext.js

GitHub Live Demo

Jan 2024

Portfolio v.5

A statically rendered personal portfolio website showcasing my projects, work experiences, and blogs. Powered by Next.js (using the Pages Router) and fully hosted in a GitHub repository, this version gives me full control over both content and code. I switched to using static pages with content managed through a single configuration file, making updates simple while retaining auto-deployments via Netlify for seamless content changes without requiring code edits. Previously, I used Contentful CMS for dynamic content updates, but consolidating everything into a single repo ensures a more unified workflow. Looking back at the first version I built five years ago with create-react-app, I overcomplicated things by client-rendering a rarely updated static site. Moving to static rendering and redesigning the architecture has made the site far more efficient and easier to manage. This streamlined setup balances simplicity and functionality, allowing me to focus on content and growth while ensuring the site stays reliable and performant.

HTML/CSSJavaScriptTailwindCSSParcelCypressNetlifyESLintPrettierGitHub Actions

GitHub Live Demo

Jul 2018 - Present

Regexer

Regexer is a utility library of functions that use regular expressions to validate various types of inputs. Developers often use regexes to validate inputs like emails, zip codes, or credit card numbers. I wanted to create a small utility library to handle a wide range of input validations with regexes, so I wouldn't need to constantly search for reliable patterns online. While it's not an exhaustive collection of regexes yet, I plan to add more functionality over time. Regexer is a Node package that can be installed and used on both the server and client side.

Node.jsESLintMochaSemantic Release

GitHub Live Demo

June 2022

@npranto/actions-cli

A command-line CLI tool to keep track of your action items for each day.

Node.jsCLI ToolCommanderConf

GitHub

Blog

Articles and write-ups I've published

Feb 1

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I'm Shakib

About

My Journey

Outside of Work

Work

eCommerce Engineer

Frontend Engineer III

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Projects

LogTrade

Portfolio v.5

Regexer

@npranto/actions-cli

Blog

Videos

Education

DevMountain

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