Devon Wells

• Built an AI chat experience integrating Judi's in-house AI into consumer apps
• Modernized frontends across all Judi Care consumer products (50M+ plan members)
• Architected an accessible, tokenized, multi-tenant design system (Tailwind, shadcn, Base UI)
• Rebuilt Amino's legacy Flask/React 16 app in Next.js 15, React 19, Tailwind, and shadcn
• Led metrics-driven development with analytics and observability integrations (OTel, Grafana, PostHog, Pendo)
• Cut the JS payload from multiple megabytes to under 500 KB, speeding page loads on marginal devices
• Established full test coverage across user journeys with Vitest, Playwright, Turborepo, and pnpm, cutting CI feedback from hours to minutes
• Architected BFF layer enabling a thin client while keeping backend services decoupled

• Advise as a fractional CTO on architecture and technical direction

• Architected and built the MVP on a sync engine (Zero, TypeScript, Solid, Go/Python, Capacitor, PostgreSQL, Railway)
• Shipped V1 player profiles and ranked matchmaking, rating players from CV-tracked game footage
• Partnered on early AI integrations, bringing SAM 3–based player and ball tracking into the product

• Modernized legacy monolithic frontend as standardized Next.js 13, React 18, and GraphQL
• Architected Tailwind and shadcn-based design system
• Migrated 1M+ lines of coupled legacy components into a modern monorepo
• Created custom CLI for orchestrating common frontend tasks
• Built a documentation platform that transformed the company's knowledge culture
• Led core pricing funnel rebuild, aligning three siloed teams and solving multi-year blockers
• Led and organized the Frontend Guild, community of practice

• Managed Application Platform Frontend team while continuing architecture contributions
• Returned to IC, choosing hands-on craft over the management track

• Removed 2M+ lines of dead code, cutting build times by more than ten minutes
• Rearchitected CI/CD from Lerna to Turborepo and pnpm, reducing the pipeline from 2+ hours to 15 minutes
• Restructured the monorepo for decoupled contributions
• Transformed the team's reputation from "gatekeepers" to the highest-performing engineering team in 18 months
• Hosted an internal engineering podcast, fostering community and knowledge sharing

• Built a React and Next.js e-commerce platform for estate sales
• Implemented a new design system for consistent, accessible UI
• Built typed utility libraries

Modernized legacy applications to Lit and Polymer 3. Delivered Oracle Data Analytics Cloud solutions, PHP widgets, and RESTful APIs.

One of three employees at a STEM education nonprofit. Built a CS teaching platform (700+ students, 3rd–12th grade), and led operations and technical direction. Later launched the e-commerce site for Pioneer Possibilities, the org's spin-off into physical activity kits for underrepresented students.