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