FRONT-END ENGINEER . OPEN TO CONTRACT WORK

I make interfaces that hold up on a bad connection.

Leena Farouk front-end engineer . nine years, mostly on things used by people who did not choose the software.
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What I do

  • PerformanceBudgets, measurement, and saying no to the third font.
  • AccessibilityKeyboard first, and everything else follows from it.
  • Design systemsTokens and components that outlast the redesign.
  • Flaky networksThe state nobody designs for is the one most people are in.

Skills

Rated on shipped work, with the caveat that a number is a summary and not a reference.
CSS and layout 94%
Nine years, and still the fastest fix
TypeScript 86%
Primary language since 2019
Accessibility 89%
Audited and remediated four products
Build tooling 72%
Enough to keep it out of everyone's way

Selected work

Field reporting tool

Field reporting tool

Worked on a 2G connection in a basement, which was the whole brief.

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Clinic intake

Clinic intake

Cut the form from four screens to one, and the errors with it.

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Component library

Component library

Forty components, one team, four products.

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Checkout rebuild

Checkout rebuild

Keyboard-complete, and faster on the slowest device we could find.

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Words

Tested it on the oldest phone in the office before anyone asked her to.
Priya RamanPriya RamanEngineering Manager
Our accessibility audit came back clean for the first time.
Jonas WeberJonas WeberProduct Lead
Explains the trade-off instead of quietly picking one. Rare.
Aditi SenAditi SenDesign Director

Got something slow, broken or inaccessible?

Those are the good ones. Send a link and tell me who has to use it.
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