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Frontend engineer · Product-minded, systems-oriented

William Lubelski

Frontend Engineering

San Mateo, California[email protected]

I build thoughtful products and the systems that make them easier to develop, maintain, and evolve.

Explore the work
FIG. 01 / ENGINEERING PRACTICEWL–001
FROM THE INTERFACE
TO THE UNDERLYING SYSTEM.
[ NOT TO SCALE ]
Current / Mercury
Senior Frontend Engineer
Product area
Spend Management
Core tools
TypeScript / React / CSS

01 / Experience

Products built.
Systems improved.

Mercury

Sep 2024 → Present

Senior Frontend Engineer

Remote / SF Bay Area

Product engineer for Spend Management.

  • Rebuilt a legacy form library with TypeScript and React hooks, using advanced types to preserve backwards compatibility.

Toast

Oct 2022 → Aug 2024

Staff Frontend Engineer

Remote / SF Bay Area

  • Led a team to improve Shift Management search performance, reducing page load times for larger customers from multiple minutes to 500 ms.
  • Led the navigation and branding overhaul for the Payroll product.
  • Built frontend infrastructure for localization, wizard workflows, type-safe reactive localStorage, and client-side navigation alongside legacy server-rendered pages.

Carta

2021 → 2022

Senior Developer II, Frontend

Remote / SF Bay Area

  • Re-architected data fetching and the frontend of TotalComp.
  • Designed and built the frontend for the HRIS integration system.
  • Supported a junior engineer leading the Total Rewards frontend project; advocated for and adopted Carta’s micro-frontend system.

Peach Finance

Jul 2020 → May 2021

Senior Frontend Developer

Remote / SF Bay Area

  • Built the customer-facing payments and account management portal.
  • Designed a system to embed the customer portal in the admin portal for smoother support interactions.

Worklete

Apr 2019 → Feb 2020

Senior Frontend Developer

San Francisco, CA

  • Led the transition from a white-label CMS prototype to an in-house web application, prioritizing simple, maintainable architecture.
  • Mentored junior engineers through pair programming and cross-team collaboration.

EverTrue

Mar 2015 → Apr 2019

Frontend Developer

Boston, MA

  • Built features for data-rich CRM and nonprofit fundraising applications using React and Backbone.
  • Designed and built a Flux-based state management library, then helped transition the application to modern React practices.
  • Mentored junior frontend developers.

Earlier experience includes frontend development at Kitewheel (2014), UX at SoftArtisans (2011–2012), and mechanical engineering at Bicon Dental Implants (2008–2011, 2012–2014).

02 / Technical Practice

Behind the interface.

TypeScript & JavaScript

Type-safe APIs, recursive and mapped types, and backwards-compatible library design.

React & architecture

Hooks, state management, data fetching, performance, and legacy-system integration.

CSS & interface design

CSS-in-JS, styled-components, LESS, PostCSS, and vanilla CSS. A grounding in UX and human factors.

03 / Education

A systems-first
perspective.

University at Buffalo (SUNY)

B.S. Aerospace Engineering · B.A. Mathematics

Bentley University

Coursework in Human Factors in Information Design: user research, testing and assessment, and measuring user experience.

General Assembly

Product Management evening course · Boston, MA

04 / Contact

Let’s build something thoughtful.

[email protected] ↗