Remote-first Staff/Principal Front-End Engineer in Sydney, Australia. I’m strongest in Front-End, complex UI, performance, data visualisation, with full-stack experience across GraphQL, Rails, Redis, AWS, serverless, and React Native.
I helped take Pry (YC W23) from pre-launch to ~30% MoM growth and a $90M Brex acquisition.
I’m looking for a high-trust IC role where I can stay hands-on, own hard product surfaces, raise codebase quality, mentor engineers, and write quality, maintainable software.
Remote-first Staff/Principal Front-End Engineer in Sydney, Australia. I’m strongest in Front-End, complex UI, performance, data visualization, with full-stack experience across GraphQL, Rails, Redis, AWS, serverless, and React Native.
I helped take Pry (YC W23) from pre-launch to ~30% MoM growth and a $90M Brex acquisition.
I’m looking for a high-trust IC role where I can stay hands-on, own hard product surfaces, raise codebase quality, mentor engineers, and write quality, maintainable software.
I strongly disagree that this is "the right way". I think that the platform provides low level primitives that are _designed_ to have abstractions built upon them.
Doing it like this has the potential to be the most performant, but it does so in the same way as writing your programs directly in assembly is potentially performant.
I also don't think that the source code is particularly readable for me, and contains lots of magic numbers and very imperative code. I would personally find it a lot more readable if it was written in some sort of declarative way using a library, even if I have to look at a GitHub repo instead of view source.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Next.js, React Server Components, Vite, Astro, React Native, TanStack Start, Storybook, Zod, Figma, VisX / D3, AWS, Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, GraphQL, REST, Ruby, Rails, Redis
Résumé/CV: https://www.valtism.com/cv.pdf
Github: https://github.com/valtism
Email: [email protected]
Remote-first Staff/Principal Front-End Engineer in Sydney, Australia. I’m strongest in Front-End, complex UI, performance, data visualisation, with full-stack experience across GraphQL, Rails, Redis, AWS, serverless, and React Native.
I helped take Pry (YC W23) from pre-launch to ~30% MoM growth and a $90M Brex acquisition.
I’m looking for a high-trust IC role where I can stay hands-on, own hard product surfaces, raise codebase quality, mentor engineers, and write quality, maintainable software.