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Custom React SSR & Enterprise Platform

Law Insider Inc — Senior Full Stack Developer

Aug 2019 – Aug 2021

React.jsPythonNode.jsGCPwebapp2

Delivered major DX and SEO improvements by building a custom React SSR solution, migrating a legacy jQuery/SPA hybrid to a modern architecture, and implementing a configurable paywall that empowered the marketing team.

Tasks & Responsibilities

  • Designed and implemented React SSR to replace legacy Jinja2 templates, eliminating backend/frontend markup duplication.
  • Refactored a post-jQuery app with multiple isolated React renders into a single-root SPA, enabling React Context API usage.
  • Built a dynamic paywall with feature limits configurable via Google Optimize, removing dev bottlenecks for marketing experiments.
  • Split view UI for quickly previewing contracts from list view.
  • Teams feature for group subscription purchasing.
  • Custom WordPress API integration for article content with contributor metadata.
  • Prefix-based entity filtering with interactivity — no page reloads.
  • Cloud functions for test run artifact processing and statistics collection.
  • Core Web Vitals performance optimization.

Achievements

  • React SSR eliminated backend/frontend markup duplication, accelerating feature development velocity.
  • Single-root SPA migration enabled modern React patterns (Context API, hooks) across the entire codebase.
  • Paywall with Google Optimize integration let the marketing team iterate on pricing without engineering involvement.
  • CI/CD frontend tests improved time-to-delivery and reduced customer-facing bugs.