Summary
Juan Collins is a seasoned Frontend Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience delivering data-driven web applications and visualizations. He specializes in data visualization and UI storytelling, turning complex datasets into intuitive dashboards with React, TypeScript, Jest, Vue.js, Next.js, GraphQL, D3, Leaflet, and Mapbox. He combines hands-on development with mentorship, having led teams, improved onboarding, and steered Agile processes in roles such as Team Lead at Path and a current freelance frontend engineer at StemForOthers. His work emphasizes performance, accessibility, and SEO, refining marketing sites to WCAG and Lighthouse standards and architecting fintech dashboards for scalable use. Juxtaposing his tech career, he brings a cross-disciplinary background as an Associate Professor and practitioner in Chinese medicine, applying systems thinking and data-driven storytelling to problems. Based in the SF Bay Area, he continues to ship responsive, data-rich frontends for startups and nonprofits, bridging design and engineering to empower users.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Nanodegree, Computer Engineering, Front End Nanodegree, Computer Engineering at Udacity
BA, International Relations, BA, International Relations at Pomona College
Master of Arts, Chinese Medicine, Master of Arts, Chinese Medicine at American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at General Assembly
Diplomate Of Canonical Chinese Medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Diplomate Of Canonical Chinese Medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine at The Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine
Spanish, Italian, English