Alphaus — Junior FE → Lead FE → Product Owner
Progressed from Junior Frontend Developer to Lead to Product Owner in under two years — owning frontend quality, release coordination, UI/UX design, and product delivery across Octo, Ripple, Flow, Wave, and Wave Pro.
Responsibilities
- Built SaaS interfaces using Vue, Vuetify, TypeScript, ECharts, and GridStack across cloud cost management modules.
- Led PR reviews, release coordination, Cypress testing, and frontend architecture as Lead Frontend Developer.
- As Product Owner, ran sprint planning, backlog refinement, feature specs, and Figma UI/UX design for five connected products.
- Built Slack-to-ClickUp bug automation (Make → n8n) adopted company-wide and recognized by the CEO.
- Supported Ripple V2 migration (monolith → microfrontend) and led Alphaus–Archera product partnership alignment.
Key learnings
- Leadership often means stepping into the missing role before someone asks.
- Product context makes frontend decisions faster and more defensible.
Achievements
- Bug reporting automation adopted company-wide — eliminated manual triage, recognized by leadership.
- Stepped into UI/UX design ownership to unblock engineering when design bandwidth was unavailable.
- Introduced PR templates that improved review speed and weekly release consistency.
- FinOps Certified Practitioner — grounding product and UI decisions in cloud financial management concepts.