Localsearch

For over five years working at Localsearch, I developed multiple iterations of themes, templates, and components used on core websites of the business.

As part of the B2B and Knowledge Base teams, I was an integral part of stand-ups and strategy meetings, bringing technical insights to guide project managers and designers.

I designed and coded animations to be used by designers and developers, collaborating with the company global design system.

I designed and developed a widget builder to allow clients to display Localsearch reviews in their websites, encouraging visitor engagement.

I coded low fidelity prototypes based on JSON data to test alternative scenarios in a more dynamic way. Detecting states and edge cases became more reliable, avoiding early-stage complex design files with a lot of manual input and guesswork. Also, variations could be branched, merged and versioned.

I’ve customised several content management systems, building user-friendly editor components with pre-defined styles that followed the company’s design system. Additionally, I extended the CMS architecture and provided endpoints for content sharing across Localsearch products.

I implemented build systems using Webpack, and later Parcel, improving not only code output but developer experience. Additionally, I maintained repos in the Localsearch GitLab self-managed instance and configured WordPress environments for deploying to WPEngine through Git.