Susana Casasola

Senior Frontend Engineer

Contact

Location: Berlin, Germany
Email: sus.casasola@gmail.com

Summary

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building product features, design systems, and frontend platforms. I bridge design and engineering to ship accessible, performant, and maintainable solutions, with full-stack collaboration when needed. I take end-to-end technical ownership and help product, design, and engineering teams stay aligned.

Skills

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • Vue
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • GraphQL
  • Apollo
  • Design Systems
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Cypress
  • Testing Library
  • Server-Side Rendering
  • AI-Assisted Development

Experience

Software Engineer @ Flink

Berlin, Germany (Aug 2025 – Present)

  • Led technical implementation of a restocking priority system using High/Medium/Low signals to reduce stockouts.
  • Led technical implementation of a supplier returns flow that saved at least 30 minutes per shift, plus a reusable image-upload Design System component, ready to be reused in future features.
  • Led the team's Design System, improving documentation, consistency, removing duplication and closely collaborating with Designer.
  • Developed multiple end to end experiences for a web app used in 160+ hubs, contributing to the API definition and implementing the visual / interactive part.

Senior Frontend Engineer @ Getsafe

Berlin, Germany (Oct 2024 – Jun 2025)

  • Built activation focused features for the React Native app, including incentive flows and questionnaires / calculators, resulting in improved activation metrics.
  • Improved team velocity by launching features via CMS-driven configuration.
  • Helped improve frontend architecture and Design System consistency across mobile and web.

Senior Frontend Engineer @ Semrush

Berlin, Germany (Oct 2023 – Sep 2024)

  • Built multiple frontend features for enterprise insight boards, displaying AI structured data with tables and charts for SEO, brand, and digital marketing insights.
  • Built real time analysis feature for a plagiarism detection tool in a text content editor, showing feedback and sources to clients to avoid bad SEO for internet repeated content.

Senior Frontend Engineer @ Homeday

Berlin, Germany (Sep 2021 – Sep 2023)

  • Developed frontend features across multiple internal and external products using Vue.
  • Led the design system project by facilitating sync meetings / feedback workshops and defining doc standards.
  • Ran WCAG and frontend performance audits on main website and internal products, defining a backlog for deeper remediation.
  • Mentored engineers in accessibility, React, CSS, and performance best practices.

Full Stack Engineer @ Joggo (now Summari)

Mexico City, Mexico (Mar 2021 – Aug 2021)

  • Early engineering team member, built multiple product features, including first mobile version of the web app.
  • Setup testing infrastructure for web app, using Cypress and testing-library.
  • Developed end to end Twitter-thread ingestion workflow, from API definition to frontend display.

Frontend Engineer @ Nubank

Mexico City, Mexico (Feb 2020 – Jan 2021)

  • Built marketing / acquisition websites for Mexico and Colombia, priorityzing load performance and test coverage.
  • Built the frontend architecture for A/B experiments, speeding up test setup and helping drive conversion gains up to 3%.
  • Conducted an accessibility assessment on both websites, implemented key fixes,
    established automated CI audits to ensure ongoing compliance and created a structured roadmap for continous improvement.

Full Stack Engineer @ Beek

Mexico City, Mexico (Oct 2018 – Jan 2020)

  • Built the React Native mobile app from scratch, laying the grounds for more (and faster to develop) features.
  • Made retention / acquisition growth experiments (pricing placement, annual vs. monthly plans, personalized recommendations) with up to 2% conversion uplift.
  • Developed end to end features for both mobile and web experiences, from database and API design to frontend implementation.

Earlier Experience

Frontend Developer @ KarmaPulse

Mexico City (Sep 2016 – Sep 2018)

  • Led frontend implementation for CMS-configurable insights / engagement boards.
  • Developed frontend features for social media analytics platforms.

Junior Frontend Developer @ UnoTV + Claro Sports

Mexico City (Apr 2015 – Aug 2016)

  • Maintained high traffic media websites for news and livestream events.
  • Developed frontend widgets and websites for the Olympics / Paralympics 2016.

Education

B.Sc. in Computing Engineering

Mexico City, Mexico (2014)

  • ESIME, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Transfer Studies

Madrid, Spain (2013)

  • ETSISI, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid