Summary
Julian Salas is a Senior Front-End Engineer with 11 years of experience building polished, user-focused web applications from design through production. Based in San Antonio, he blends a strong visual design background (BFA) with deep front-end expertise in React, TypeScript, Redux, Styled-Components, and modern frameworks like Next.js and Gatsby. His career spans product and UX roles at Rackspace, USAA, and Apex Clearing, where he ships maintainable UIs and integrates APIs (REST/GraphQL) while collaborating across design and back-end teams. Julian’s early roots in motion and visualization inform a keen attention to micro-interactions and accessible UI patterns that improve usability and brand cohesion. He also brings back-end familiarity (Node, Express, Prisma, AdonisJS, Rails) that helps bridge front-end needs with services and data modeling.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at University of the Incarnate Word