Marcell Tóth

Stoplight Elements is a library that takes your OpenAPI specification and renders a beautiful documentation site. It is an alternative to well-known tools like Swagger UI or Redocly.

I served as the team lead responsible for this nine-month-long project, and scope extensions aside, under my leadership, we delivered everything predictably and on time while maintaining a high-quality standard. The domain is technically challenging, with problems ranging from providing a pixel-perfect UI design to parsing YAML, resolving REFs, and building an HTTP request maker UI.

My responsibilities span way beyond just writing and reviewing code. We had to design everything from the ground up, including technical aspects like a CI/CD pipeline, testing strategy, and soft problems like collaborating with marketing and sales.\

Lick Home Ltd. is a UK startup to revolutionize the home decor industry. Instead of the traditional retail channels, they set out to sell paint, wallpaper, and accessories through a highly modern, custom-built eCommerce store.

I was augmenting Lick's agile engineering team, implementing new features with them, and providing support and advice in more specialized areas, like architecture design, CI/CD, or test automation.

The store is using Shopify Plus for the checkout process but has a separate headless CMS and a custom-built REST API in front, with a NextJS front-end providing the user interface. We started implementing more advanced patterns, like AWS lambdas, managed queues, and API gateways as the company grew.

Slightly different from the SaaS projects I'm usually involved in, I had the opportunity to work with the US personal care brand Lovery. As Lovery launched as a small family business, it used a lot of tedious manual processes behind the scenes to handle inventory, sales, and fulfillment across multiple selling channels. As they scaled, the team started to hit the limits of manual processing of orders, especially nearing the holiday season.

I worked with the Lovery team and their partners to automate many of their processes using industry-standard protocols and procedures. As a result, their need for manual labor to process orders was reduced tremendously, along with much-improved processing times.