Blair Wilcox: Design Technologist

Work Experience

Wayfair - Frontend Engineer and Design Technologist

Began by working as a Frontend Developer on Wayfair's Product Detail Page (PDP), and later became a Frontend Engineer and Design Technologist for Wayfair's Homebase Design System. On PDP, I worked with an integrated team of developers, designers, QA testers, and analysts to add features and A/B test new layouts. Features were developed with React, Redux, and SCSS with a PHP backend and GraphQL APIs.

On the Homebase team, I worked with an extended team of developers and designers to maintain the Homebase design system's web components (written in React and TypeScript) and design components (made with Figma). I did a lot of work on tooling, developing a Chrome Extension that could monitor the ratio of Homebase components to team-specific components on a page, and several Figma Plugins that designers used for theming and maintaining the design system. For the web library, in addition to maintaining the individual components, I also wrote Jest unit tests, Cypress integration tests, Chromatic visual regression tests and Storybook stories, and I also helped maintain our documentation site, a Dockerized NextJS app that was deployed through Buildkite CI with resources configured by Terraform.

During this time, I was also a lead for the Trans@Wayfair ERG. As part of this role, I was responsible for running an internal Slack channel, organizing recurring meetups, looking up documentation about company policies, and connecting employees with people from the Talent or DEI organization.

Fitbit - Digital Marketing Engineer

Worked as an engineer on Fitbit's Digital Marketing team, which consisted of a mix of 8 developers and QA testers. This team maintained an ecommerce site and created splash pages based on Photoshop mocks for new product launches and holiday sales. Internationalization was an important part of this, and pages frequently had to support 5 or more languages. Designs were primarily done in HTML and SCSS and built with Metalsmith and Gulp. The team closely followed the Scrum methodology, had a dedicated Scrum Master and attended official training sessions.

Global Thinking - Software Engineering Intern

Worked as a software engineering intern for Global Thinking (now More Vang), a design firm specializing in print and digital marketing campaigns. I worked on an agile team of 5-6 developers developing personalized Wordpress sites and implementing new features for their Laravel web app, Mythos, and Magento ecommerce platform.

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