RODRIGO LEON

Lead Frontend Engineer · Temecula, CA / Remote

• Served as lead frontend engineer building core solar operations platform spanning dashboards, validation workflows, shared component library, and finance interfaces used by sales, operations, and finance teams to manage 534K+ customer projects.
• Launched interactive dashboard supporting ticketing and task workflows, replacing third-party CRM using React, Laravel, Context API, and React Query, increasing customer project intake capacity by 40% for 300+ ops, sales, and finance users.
• Designed and maintained interactive data visualization timeline for customer project milestones using CSS, Material UI, custom Day.js wrapper, and Axios, giving teams at-a-glance visibility into progress, gaps, and upcoming work.
• Owned commissions interface replacing spreadsheet-based payout tracking system using schema-driven rendering, Lodash, useMemo, and useCallback, enabling branch managers to manage and incentivize monthly payouts for 500+ sales reps.
• Led development of React shared component library with schema-driven form builder, centralized modal system, and async state renderer using Tailwind and Material UI, eliminating duplicate UI work and cutting UI development time in half.
• Built developer experience tooling including component gallery, build sandbox, and custom hooks, making it easier and faster for engineers to discover UI patterns, build and test components, and reuse logic and state management across components.
• Engineered solar panel monitoring interface charting API-backed metrics for panel power generation, actual vs guaranteed performance, and degradation over time using Recharts, covering 142K customer projects representing $4.5B in value.
• Overhauled FreedomForever.com WordPress site by creating configurable page-building blocks using Laravel Blade, React, and Tailwind, enabling users to design pages without engineering support, improving accessibility and performance metrics from C to A.
• Integrated AI-powered customer project summary feature generating one-paragraph summaries using timeline, ticket, and communication data, reducing time-consuming manual lookups for ops and sales teams.
• Developed custom Twilio Flex plugin, surfacing customer project context during inbound calls by matching phone numbers to internal project data using React and Twilio SDK, reducing manual lookups and streamlining contact center workflows.

Lead Frontend Web Developer · Newport Beach, CA / Remote

• Served as lead frontend developer at digital agency managing WordPress-based web presences for 300+ dental and medical clients, working across distributed team through full agency project lifecycle from scoping to delivery.
• Owned development of WordPress theme framework using PHP, Bootstrap, JavaScript, standardizing structure and conventions across distributed team, improving delivery efficiency by 60% and mentoring developers through documentation and code review.
• Consolidated 100+ individually VPS-hosted sites into WordPress Multisite installs, implementing custom plugins and accessibility features across all installs, improving PageSpeed by 40% and reducing infrastructure overhead across the entire client portfolio.
• Developed custom WordPress directory platform from scratch building custom theme and plugin using PHP, custom post types, and Customizer fields, powering reputation and review management for 300+ dental and medical practices.