Mark Anthony Cianfrani
Senior Full Stack Developer and professional Component Librarian with over 9 years of experience. 3 years leading the developer experience for the Astro UX Design System. Careful and thorough, I thrive in situations where requirements are vague, roles are ambiguous, and there’s work to be done. I believe in the Web.
Work Experience
Rocket Communications, Inc.
Senior Full Stack Developer
- Current
- Set the standard for developing flexible, reusable component APIs, harmonizing efforts between design and engineering teams.
- Consolidated developer metrics from varied platforms to enhance our versioning approach, anchoring strategies in robust data insights.
- Created a Figma plugin for documenting design tokens, increasing designer efficiency.
- Led a cross-functional initiative to implement design tokens, coordinating directly with engineering, design, and product teams. I developed the backend system and CI/CD pipelines, established naming conventions, and significantly sped up development cycles by ensuring consistent design application across projects.
- Engineered specialized tooling to validate coded components against Figma designs.
- Devised automated codemods enabling developers to effortlessly upgrade their applications, significantly accelerating the adoption of the latest design system version, making the transition smoother and faster.
- Actively mentored junior developers, fostering skill growth and professional development, while also leading code reviews to ensure high-quality, maintainable code across projects.
- Developed a 'single pane of glass' dashboard platform using microfrontend architecture, enabling modular development and integration across multiple teams.
Rocket Communications, Inc.
Full Stack Developer
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- Established the practice of visual regression testing and wrote an internal testing suite using Puppeteer to end the struggle of CSS whack-a-mole and prevent regressions from making their way into production
- Elevated our tech stack by leading the migration from Lit Element to Stencil within the Astro web component library. This transition catalyzed a monthly adoption growth, adding over 1k users, spotlighting the library's expanded reach and utility.
Mile 6, LLC
Lead Web Developer
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- Initiated and led a company-wide transition from waterfall project management to agile methodologies which both increased company revenue and client value.
- Created internal developer tools to bootstrap and containerize new projects, reducing the time for developers to ramp on new and existing projects.
- Designed and developed an internal ERP system, working directly with stakeholders, from inception to release and maintained the system for 3+ years.
- Built a cross-platform mobile app used by healthcare providers for recruiting. Wrote and implemented the backend API, database schema, and front-end client.
- Rewrote a mission critical sales tool as a multi-tenant Single Page Application in Vue, allowing over 100+ dealers to create and manage their own individual quotes and sync with external CRM services like Salesforce.
Education
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Arts in English
Skills
HTML / JSX, CSS / Tailwind, Javascript / Typescript, Web Components / Lit / Stencil, React, Vue, Angular, Figma, E2E Testing / TDD / Playwright / Jest, Design Systems, Storybook, Node, PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Postgres