Zachary I. Price

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Professional Summary

Senior UX Engineer specializing in frontend modernization, design systems, reusable component architecture, and frontend standards. Bridges UX, frontend engineering, and cross-functional strategy to improve enterprise applications through clearer implementation patterns, semantic quality, accessibility, and long-term maintainability. Comfortable operating across adjacent architecture and platform concerns without overstating specialty depth. Experienced integrating frontend applications with RESTful APIs and backend services, delivering through CI/CD pipelines, and building for financial services, insurance, and broader B2B/B2C product domains.

Core Competencies & Skills

  • Design Systems & Governance
  • Component-Driven Architecture
  • Design Tokens & Theming
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
  • TypeScript & UI Engineering
  • Composable UI Primitives
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Prototyping & Interaction Design
Core
Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, SASS, HTML, CSS, Semantic HTML, Accessibility, Design Systems, Application Modernization, UI Architecture, API Design
Tools
Figma, Storybook, Chromatic, Nx, Stylelint, Component Libraries, Jest, Playwright, Webpack, Vite, Git, RxJS, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Builder.io, Supabase, Cloudflare, Node.js, RESTful APIs
Applied Working Experience
RESTful API / backend integration, Node.js, CI/CD pipelines, Okta-based authentication flows, PKCE, BFF-oriented architecture, financial services / insurance workflows, B2B & B2C product experience, Headless CMS patterns, AppDynamics, Google Analytics, Azure Front Door, Azure Static Web Apps, Salesforce, Liferay, Snowflake

Professional Experience

Sammons Financial Group Jan 2024 – Mar 2026
Senior UX Engineer | Remote
  • Led UX implementation efforts across enterprise digital products, partnering with design, leadership, QA, backend, and cross-functional project teams to deliver high-quality user experiences.
  • Drove frontend UX direction and modernization planning for a legacy Angular application.
  • Helped reduce message-delivery latency from roughly 5 minutes to under 30 seconds.
  • Integrated frontend experiences with RESTful APIs and backend services while improving API/UI boundaries, separation of concerns, and long-term maintainability.
  • Created and managed a shared design system and strengthened frontend standards across styling, linting, formatting, and documentation.
  • Contributed to frontend deployment and release workflows using Azure DevOps and CI/CD processes.
  • Worked within financial and insurance-related workflows across enterprise digital products, balancing internal operational needs with end-user experience quality.
  • Worked within Okta-based authentication flows, BFF-oriented architecture, AppDynamics, and Google Analytics as part of broader product delivery.
  • Expanded into modern platform workflows using Cloudflare and Supabase.
  • Used AI-assisted workflows to accelerate research, prototyping, debugging, documentation, and skill development.
Sammons Financial Group Nov 2022 – Dec 2023
UX Engineer | Remote
  • Supported frontend implementation and execution of user experiences across digital platforms, collaborating closely with design, project teams, backend-connected product delivery, and leadership to support high-quality delivery.
  • Contributed to UX implementation across digital platforms, including design system creation, reusable component foundations, and cross-functional delivery efforts that later expanded into broader modernization, architecture, and standards ownership.
Pixel Brew / Independent Work 2010 – Present
Owner & Principal UX Engineer | Fort Worth, TX
  • Independent UX engineering and frontend consulting across websites, digital experiences, and brand systems, including work developed under the Pixel Brew brand.
  • Built and maintained a highly customizable in-house design system with reusable components, WCAG-conscious accessibility standards, and private CDN distribution to support scalable, consistent frontend delivery across projects.
  • Built and maintained frontend delivery workflows using GitHub Actions and modern build tooling to support implementation, deployment, and maintainability across web projects.
  • Worked within modern frontend platform workflows including Supabase, Cloudflare, and headless CMS-style implementation patterns such as Builder.io.
  • Led UX, UI, frontend implementation, client collaboration, and end-to-end delivery for projects spanning semantic HTML, CSS/SASS, reusable frontend systems, and user-centered digital experiences.
Caliber Home Loans Feb 2021 – Sep 2022
UX Engineer | Coppell, TX
  • Led frontend development for multiple Ignite teams and improved consistency through local design-system adoption while helping the application consume the CDN-delivered system.
  • Reduced more than 10,000 unnecessary lines of code by replacing redundant styles with global CSS properties, SCSS variables, improved semantics, accessibility attributes, and reusable utility classes.
  • Established stronger frontend standards across teams, trained full-stack developers on semantic HTML and CSS/SCSS techniques, and became the primary point of contact for frontend development.
  • Partnered with Product Design on design system implementation, documentation, and synchronization with the Figma library.
CoreLogic Jul 2019 – Sep 2020
Frontend Developer | Irving, TX
  • Maintained and evolved the enterprise UX design system codebase in Angular, TypeScript, and SASS on a regular release cadence.
  • Redesigned the enterprise design system Sketch library to improve information architecture, symbol efficiency, consistency, and usability.
  • Created new components and refined existing patterns while maintaining WCAG alignment and stronger system-wide consistency.
  • Delivered regular updates informed by user feedback, product needs, and evolving platform requirements.
Xpressdocs Jan 2017 – May 2019
User Experience Designer | Fort Worth, TX
  • Led the end-to-end redesign of the platform, beginning with a comprehensive UX analysis of the existing experience and research-informed prototypes.
  • Built the company's first design system and reusable interaction patterns, then cross-trained development teams on implementation and adoption.
  • Implemented analytics tracking through Google Tag Manager, established stronger measurement practices for UX and product feedback loops, and improved release times by 35% by streamlining communication and data reporting across three continental teams.
First Command Financial Services 2015 – 2016
UI Developer / Designer | Fort Worth, TX
  • Collaborated across business, product, UX, and engineering in an Agile environment to solve product and experience problems.
  • Built solutions using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript across the product lifecycle and translated research findings into design and functional improvements.

Education & Certification

B.A., Web Design & Interactive Media — The Art Institute of Fort Worth

Web Technology & Design — Liberty University

IGA Agile Certification Professional — Agile Trailblazers