Sam Kern | Front-end developer

FULL-STACK JAVASCRIPT ENGINEER WITH 7 YEARS EXPERIENCE

B.S. IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

REACT & REACT NATIVE

UX/UI DESIGN

SERIAL FOUNDER

Select Projects

Delphi – the world’s first digital cloning platform

Special.tv – a “Youtube with a paywall”

Bird’s Eye Health – a medical drug formulary

Delphi

Freelance Contractor | 2 Months

Delphi is the world’s first digital cloning platform, powered by Artificial Intelligence. Delphi is a seed-stage startup funded by Founders Fund, Balaji Srinivasan, and SaxeCap.

Delphi’s founding team was stretched thin as they raced to launch V.1 to the public and needed a front-end engineer who could give the entire app a facelift—quickly, iteratively, and with very little direction.

Contribution

Full screen redesign of multple views across app (UI/UX)

Pixel-perfect implementation of redesigns

Implement best-practices for React.js, Next.js, and Chakra UI

UI bug fixes

Device responsivity

Screens were first re-designed by me on Figma, approved by the team, then implemented into the app.

All views were designed + coded to be completely responsive to all screen sizes.

Special.tv

Senior Front-end Developer | 18 Months

Beginning as a boutique software development agency, Special.tv raised $3.5M to create a “Youtube with a paywall” - a platform for independent video creators to monetize their work via subscription revenue.

Special hadn’t yet achieved product-market fit, which meant our team needed to build in a way where we could learn – and pivot – quickly. Our small team of 3 engineers and one product owner got to work, balancing speed and reusability, and hitting every deadline we set.

The scale of the product we would end up building was massive: effectively a YouTube meets Netflix clone, designed specifically for independent creators.

Contribution

I co-led the front-end development from the ground up, involved in all architecture decisions and implementation from start to finish.

Designed the front-end architecture of web app, utilizing Redux for state management

Implemented complex role-based permissions using RBAC (Role Based Access Control) libraries

Assisted in backend API development using Adonis.js

Translated complete Figma designs to pixel-perfect interactive UIs (see below)

Built custom video player with TV casting functionality

Built all sign in and account creation flows using Amazon Cognito (AWS Amplify) for authentication.

Built various sections of the Special.tv Studio – a backend for video creators to upload content, configure their channel page, view analytics, and start accepting payments.

Built fully responsive views for the subscriber-side app utilizing our own component library. Implemented conditional UI based on the user’s role, paywall UI and logic, and various functionality.

Styled our own video player with custom overlays and buttons.

Bird’s Eye Technologies

Front-end Developer | 3 Months

Bird's Eye Technologies contracted our agency to build a visually stunning and user-friend suite of tools for medical professionals (think “Google Workspace”), which included an Admin Dashboard and a Formulary to query and display medical drugs and substances.

Given my experience building complete web apps from scratch, I was tasked as the sole front-end developer on the project and collaborated with a single backend engineer.

Contribution

Conditional views & functionality based on a user's role (using Role Based Access Control (RBAC) libraries)

Data visualizations created with D3.js

A QR code scanner using a computer's webcam

Fully responsive Uis for desktop and mobile screen sizes

...and more.

Go to 1:30 for a product demo of the Formulary – I was responsible for the entire UI.

Connect

samuel.kern11@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/sam-kern