Griffen Schwiesow
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
With a degree in human-centered design and engineering and a professional web design and development background, Griffen is passionate about crafting beautiful, usable, and accessible experiences. He's worked with a wide range of clients from the city of Seattle to small, family-run businesses and is capable of meeting and exceeding unique client demands.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Cloud, CreativeJS, Adobe, Figma, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux, Terminal
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed and developed is an accessible and static eCommerce site that saved the company over $10,000 in costs.
Work Experience
Front-end Engineer
Amazon Advertising
- Implemented and iterated on creative ad formats through A/B testing, serving billions of impressions weekly, and delivered top-performing designs bringing in around $63 million in sales and around $8 million in advertising revenue yearly.
- Optimized front-end code to reduce latency, balancing efficiency with quality to save over 100ms at P99, increasing ad clicks by 1.97%.
- Resolved over 75% of accessibility defects on Sponsored Brands, educated the team on accessibility best practices, and implemented automated accessibility tests on the codebase.
Web Development Intern
Seattle Department of Transportation
- Designed and developed a website that is accessible, customizable, and allows for coordinated communication between eight partnering agencies.
- Managed eight web properties composed of over 400 pages, including daily updates.
- Migrated plain HTML content into a modern, enterprise-level content management system.
Experience
Self-care App for Therapists
https://www.griffen.design/enrich/During a ten-week human-centered design sprint, I conducted research, generated personas, developed user journey maps, created storyboards, designed potential information architecture, and produced high-fidelity mockups of the app.
Water-saving Web App
https://www.griffen.design/incite-water/I designed and developed the website and programmed the interactive water-saving calculator.
Skills
Languages
Sass, Python, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin
Frameworks
Flask, Django
Libraries/APIs
React, CreativeJS, Amazon API
Tools
Sketch, Adobe CC, Figma, JetBrains, Adobe, Origami, Terminal, AWS IAM, AWS CodeCommit, GitLab
Paradigms
Agile, Functional Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Human-centered Design (HCD)
Platforms
Firebase, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), WordPress, Linux
Storage
MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL
Other
Gatsby, Cloud, Ingeniux CMS, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon Route 53, User Journeys, User Journey Maps, High-fidelity Mockups
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Human-centered Design and Engineering, Japanese
University of Washington - Seattle, WA, USA
Spent a Year as a Research Assistant in Computational Linguistics
Tokyo Institute of Technology - Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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