Resume

Andrew Persad

Lead Software Engineer

Download PDF

Professional Summary

fig. 01

Lead software engineer with 8+ years building accessible, high-traffic web applications for Fortune 500 clients at Deloitte Digital, and five self-built products shipped and live on the side. I lead frontend delivery end to end: design systems built from scratch, performance measured in render profiles, and accessibility enforced in CI rather than promised in review.

Core Competencies

fig. 02
Frontend
React · Next.js · TypeScript · JavaScript (ES6+) · Tailwind CSS · SCSS · CSS-in-JS · React Router
Quality and tooling
React Testing Library · Jest · Playwright · Storybook · axe DevTools · Lighthouse
Platforms and systems
Contentful · Adobe Experience Manager · MUI X Charts · Veneer, Meridian, and Lilly design systems · SSO integration · SQL

Professional Experience

fig. 03

Lead Software Engineer

Deloitte Digital

current
  • Developed responsive, accessible front-end interfaces from high- and low-fidelity designs with a focus on pixel-perfect precision and cross-browser compatibility
  • Built a modular component library and internal design system from scratch, standardizing UX patterns and meeting accessibility requirements, with components designed to be white-label and highly customizable to accommodate diverse brand guidelines and client color schemes
  • Improved UI performance through targeted memoization, render profiling, and architecture-level optimizations, reducing latency across critical paths
  • Created starter kits and tooling that enabled repeatable, high quality delivery across diverse client teams and domains

  1. 2025

    Hewlett Packard / Workforce Experience Platform

    • Led delivery of the web portal for the Workforce Experience Platform, a distributed platform allowing IT Administrators and procurement specialists an overview of their systems, handling fleet management, employee engagement, digital workspaces, and security systems
    • Architected a modular, component-driven front-end (React+ HP design system) with enterprise-grade security, SSO integration, and WCAG-compliant accessibility, ensuring a seamless experience for advanced users on any device.
    • Worked with the Data team to extract, process, and transform the fleet telemetry from the data lake to create APIs for the web portal
    • Enabled near real-time monitoring and visualization of fleet health KPls, empowering administrators to proactively detect and address issues before they escalate

    Key areas: Fleet Management (Device Telemetry, Remote Script Remediation, Policies), Employee Engagement - Pulses, Analytics

    Typescript · React · Veneer (Internal Design System) · React Testing Library · MUI X Charts

  2. 2025

    Eli Lilly / Consumer Facing Site

    • Led frontend efforts on a full redesign of the consumer-facing site with 150K - 200K monthly active users, including a new medicine exploration and pricing experience
    • Contributed to the relaunch of the Lilly Design System (LOS), improving consistency and developer velocity
    • Integrated external APls and CMS data sources into dynamic, responsive UI flows

    Key areas: LillyDirect, Conditions, Healthcare Provider Page, Thrive API integration, and Authentication

    TypeScript · Next.js · React Router · React · SCSS · Tailwind · Contentful · Adobe Experience Manager · axe DevTools

  3. 2023

    Amazon / Buy with Prime

    • Helped launch the Buy with Prime Merchant Portal, a collection of dashboards for product listings and order management using internal design system (Meridian), enabling a place for centralized insights available to Amazon's 9 million+ vendors

    Key areas: Products Dashboard, Order Dashboard

    Typescript · React · React Testing Library · Meridian (Amazon internal design system)

Certifications

fig. 04
  • Salesforce Certified Admin
  • Salesforce Certified Platform Developer 1
  • Certified Associate Configurator - Unqork