Amir Naeem

Product Builder

Stealth • Fulltime

Nov 2015 - Present • 10 yrs 10 mos

- Mentorship & Team Development: Elevated junior developers through structured mentoring, design critiques, and code reviews, incorporating AI tools like v0, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot into training sessions to build team capacity for complex UX and frontend challenges. - Strategic Design Leadership: Partnered with C-level executives to translate business objectives into user-centered design solutions, creating high-fidelity Figma designs and scalable component-based design systems, leveraging Figma AI and v0 to accelerate design-to-development handoff. - Interactive Prototyping & Validation: Developed advanced Figma prototypes and AI-generated UI mockups using v0, rapidly converting concepts into testable React components to enable stakeholder buy-in and validate decisions before full engineering investment. - Research & Discovery: Led discovery initiatives including stakeholder interviews, user research sessions, and design thinking workshops, utilizing Claude and ChatGPT to synthesize findings and translate them into actionable frontend and UX requirements. - Strategic UX Advisory: Acted as a trusted UX advisor to leadership, articulating the business value of user experience through metrics, case studies, and design rationale that connected UX investments to revenue impact and customer satisfaction. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Bridged design and engineering by actively contributing to frontend codebases (React, Vue.js, TypeScript) using Cursor and GitHub Copilot, conducting code reviews, and establishing design-to-development handoff processes that ensured pixel-perfect implementation. - Thought Leadership: Closed the design-to-code gap by leading lightning talks and workshops that taught designers to think in components and developers to think in user flows, embedding UX principles directly into the engineering culture and raising output quality across both disciplines.

Frontend Developer

LinkedIn • Fulltime

Feb 2015 - Aug 2015 • 6 mos

- Converted designs to code: Took PSD files from designers and turned them into clean, responsive WordPress websites. Made sure everything looked right on every screen size and actually matched the mockups. - Built WordPress sites from scratch: Created custom themes, set up plugins, and made sure clients could update content without calling us every time they wanted to change a headline. - Wrote solid HTML/CSS/JS: Used HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, jQuery, and Bootstrap to build interactive interfaces. Validated markup, debugged cross-browser issues, and kept code clean enough that the next person wouldn't hate me. - Made sites responsive: Ensured everything worked smoothly on mobile, tablet, and desktop. This was 2015 responsive design wasn't optional anymore, but a lot of people were still figuring it out. - Handled AJAX and JSON: Implemented dynamic features without page reloads, integrated APIs, and made sites feel faster and more interactive than static pages. - Optimized for SEO: Built sites with proper semantic HTML, meta tags, and structure so they'd actually show up in search results. Fast load times and clean code were part of the package. - Debugged and troubleshooted: Fixed browser quirks (looking at you, IE), resolved layout issues, and figured out why things broke when they worked fine yesterday. - Collaborated with the team: Worked closely with designers and backend developers, communicated progress, asked questions when requirements were unclear, and delivered on time.

Web Developer

Media Chambers • Fulltime

Dec 2014 - Mar 2015 • 3 mos

- Built WordPress websites: Converted Photoshop designs into working WordPress sites. Focused on getting pixel-perfect layouts that actually functioned across different devices and browsers. - Coded responsive layouts: Used HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and jQuery to create interfaces that adapted to any screen size. Made sure navigation, forms, and content all worked smoothly on mobile. - Implemented interactive features: Added AJAX functionality for dynamic content loading, worked with JSON for data handling, and built user interactions that made sites feel modern and responsive. - Focused on the details: Validated HTML/CSS to catch errors early, debugged layout issues in different browsers, and made sure typography, spacing, and alignment were clean and consistent. - Optimized for search engines: Structured markup properly for SEO, used semantic HTML, and kept page speeds reasonable so sites could actually be found and loaded quickly. - Collaborated and communicated: Worked with designers to understand their vision, asked questions when specs were unclear, and kept stakeholders updated on progress and any roadblocks. - Learned fast: This was early in my career absorbed new tools, figured out WordPress quirks, and built up my problem-solving skills by tackling whatever came my way.