Ben Rondeau

- Led multiple Order Fulfillment & Private Label Credit Card engineering teams, designing and implementing complex front-end solutions on a high-traffic e-commerce platform serving tens of millions of customers and generating billions in revenue each year. - Mentored multiple junior engineers to attain their next role, with 3 receiving promotions as a result. - Provided technical leadership to multiple engineering teams, conducting code reviews and establishing best practices across the teams to ensure high quality releases with minimal issues. - Collaborated cross-functionally with product owners, user experience designers, site reliability engineers and other internal/external stakeholders to deliver features from concept through deployment and maintenance. - Led Agile team ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups, ensuring consistent delivery cadence with transparent communication. - Conducted dozens of engineering interviews across multiple seniority levels by evaluating candidate’s technical proficiency and communication skills for respective positions. - Ensured front-end web application met or exceeded Google Core Web Vital (CWV) standards to ensure optimal customer experience and ideal search engine optimization (SEO) ranking. - Co-led the Cart & Checkout engineering community’s preparation for the 2023 holiday shopping season, resulting in no downtime or major issues during critical buying season for customers. - Co-led the implementation of selenium based end-to-end testing scripts to agentic based prompting approach, allowing for more flexible tests that are maintainable by anyone with product knowledge (not just engineers).

- Led the Private Label Credit Card engineering team for 2+ years, owning the customer experience for our co-branded Citibank credit cards in highly sensitive and transactional areas of the website. - Designed, implemented and maintained multiple platform integrations between Home Depot and Citibank financial systems to meet customer purchasing and account servicing needs. - Migrated the legacy checkout front-end web application from Angular v1 to React, ensuring optimal customer experience while maintaining high security standards for e-commerce transactions.

Front end engineer for the Home Depot Payments Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization, developing a monitoring dashboard for critical payment systems.

Updated existing interfaces to meet new design system standards and developed UI components for their healthcare platform.

Delivered front-end solutions for a vehicle sales platform, integrating with back-end services and ensuring cross-browser compatibility.

Contributed to a full-stack React application delivering geo-political intelligence content to subscribers.

Advocated for IBM Cloud products to enterprise customers, combining technical demonstrations with developer education.

Translated product designs into functional front-end code in the IBM Design Studio and taught design principles to cross-functional teams.

Designed and implemented front-end interfaces for Wordpress sites selling Medicare insurance policies.