Javier Baro

Software Engineer/Hialeah, FL

Available for select opportunities

I BUILD SOFTWARETHAT HOLDS TOGETHER.

Frontend-focused engineer. I keep the interface, the components, and the data in the same conversation so products stay coherent as they grow.

UX
COMPONENTS
APPLICATION
API
DATA

Software is a stack of decisions. I make them line up.

I work at the front of the stack — Angular, React, Next.js — without treating the rest as someone else’s problem. Interfaces fail when the component system, the application, and the API drift apart.

The sites and products I want to ship are the ones a team can still change a year later. Clarity in the UI. Systems underneath. Performance as a default. Maintainability as the point.

Selected work

Two engagements. Details stay high-level where the work is not public.

How I build

Five layers. One product. Different depths, same direction.

  1. 01

    Clarity

    If the next action is not obvious, the interface is not finished. Type, hierarchy, and empty space do the explaining before decoration does.

  2. 02

    Systems

    Components are a language. They only work if they map to the product’s objects — not to a one-off layout for each screen.

  3. 03

    Performance

    What the user waits on is part of the design. Load less, animate transform and opacity, keep the main thread for the work that needs it.

  4. 04

    Maintainability

    A ship that cannot be changed is unfinished. Structure the stack so a later engineer can find the decision and reverse it.

UX
COMPONENTS
APPLICATION
API
DATA

Experience

  1. Sep 2022Present

    Independent Software Developer

    Independent/United States

    Product and interface work for clients and independent projects. Frontend architecture, component systems, and the APIs they sit on.

  2. Dec 2020May 2022

    Software Developer

    Getecsa/Panama

    Application software across the stack. Building and maintaining production systems with a web interface and supporting services.

  3. Oct 2019Jun 2020

    Software Developer

    Rootstack/Panama

    Client project delivery. Web interfaces and the application layer behind them, in a studio environment.

  4. Mar 2018Oct 2018

    Software Developer Intern

    CrimsonLogic Panama/Panama

    Internship. Early time in a production software team.

Technical system

A map, not a logo wall. Hover a node to see what it sits next to.

Interface

Application

Practice

Tools

About

I trained as a systems engineer and moved toward the interface — not away from the rest of the stack. The work I care about is holding those layers together so a product still makes sense after the first release.

Based in Hialeah, Florida. Employed; open to a small number of conversations that are a genuine fit.

Universidad Latina de Panamá · Ingeniería en Sistemas Informáticos · 2016–2019

LET'S BUILD SOMETHING WORTH SHIPPING.

If the work needs someone who can own the frontend and still speak to the system underneath, start on LinkedIn.