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Антон Литвинов
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Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

A frontend resume is read by two people with different questions. The recruiter scans for the framework in the job posting, the years attached to it, and a link that opens. The engineer who runs the loop wants to know whether you understand the browser underneath the framework: how you kept Largest Contentful Paint under budget, what you did about a component that failed keyboard navigation, how a Figma file became a design system instead of forty one-off buttons. Almost every US frontend loop now ends in a take-home or a live component build, so the resume only has to earn you that hour. Below is a full example written for an applicant tracking system, with performance budgets, accessibility work and deployed projects in numbers.

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  • 6 mistakes that end a frontend application early
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Frontend developer resume example

The order that survives both screens: framework and language first, then shipped interfaces with the users and the numbers behind them, then links a hiring manager can actually open.

The framework in the first two lines

React, Vue, Angular or Svelte, with TypeScript and the build tool, belongs in the headline and the summary. A recruiter filtering an applicant tracking system for 'React' and 'TypeScript' never reaches a skills box at the bottom of page two.

Performance and accessibility as numbers

'Cut Largest Contentful Paint from 4.1s to 1.8s on the product listing page' and 'took the checkout from 31 axe violations to zero and passed a keyboard-only audit' say more than any adjective about craft.

Links that open

GitHub, a portfolio and at least one live deployed URL in the header. Frontend is the one specialty where the reviewer can see your work in thirty seconds, and a dead link reads as a dead candidate.

ATS friendly

Single column, standard headings, no photo, no skill-rating bars, no two-column tables. Parsers drop text inside graphics, and a resume that arrives as scrambled fragments is rejected by a human who never sees why.

Sample resume text

Use it as a reference: keep the structure and wording, put in your own facts and numbers.

Marcus Deleon

Frontend Developer (React, TypeScript, Next.js)
Austin, TX
marcus.deleon@example.com
+1 512 555 0148
linkedin.com/in/example

Profile

Frontend Developer with 5 years on React and TypeScript in consumer e-commerce and SaaS. Built a 60-component design system in Storybook adopted by three product teams, cut Largest Contentful Paint on the catalog from 4.1s to 1.8s, and brought checkout to WCAG 2.2 AA with zero axe-core violations. Owns features from Figma handoff through Playwright coverage to a flagged production deploy. GitHub and live portfolio in header.

Experience

Frontend Developer2023 - present

Harborline Commerce, Austin, TX

  • Rebuilt the product listing page in Next.js with route-level code splitting and responsive images: LCP fell from 4.1s to 1.8s on mobile, the bundle dropped 380KB, and mobile add-to-cart rose 6% over a four-week A/B test
  • Built and maintained a 60-component design system in Storybook with design tokens shared from Figma, adopted by three product teams and replacing roughly 11,000 lines of duplicated component code
  • Led the accessibility remediation of checkout: 31 axe-core violations to zero, full keyboard path verified, and a screen reader pass with VoiceOver documented for the compliance team
  • Added Playwright coverage for the four highest-revenue user journeys, which caught two checkout regressions before release and cut post-deploy hotfixes from about 3 a month to 1
Frontend Developer2021 - 2023

Brightsill Software, Austin, TX

  • Migrated a 90-screen analytics dashboard from JavaScript to TypeScript over two quarters with no feature freeze, removing a class of runtime errors that accounted for 22% of the team's Sentry volume
  • Replaced hand-rolled data fetching with TanStack Query across the dashboard, cutting duplicate network requests on the main view from 14 to 4
  • Ran the weekly design handoff with two product designers and introduced a states checklist - empty, loading, error, permission-denied - that removed most late-stage rework
Junior Frontend Developer2020 - 2021

Coastwater Media Group, San Antonio, TX

  • Built responsive marketing pages in React for eight client campaigns, all delivered above 90 on Lighthouse performance on mobile
  • Converted the shared component library to semantic HTML and keyboard-navigable patterns after an external accessibility audit

Education

The University of Texas at San Antonio2016 - 2020

B.S. Computer Science

Skills

React, Next.js App RouterTypeScriptModern CSS, Tailwind CSS, CSS ModulesTanStack Query, Redux ToolkitVite, Webpack, bundle analysisVitest, React Testing Library, PlaywrightStorybook, Chromatic visual regressionWCAG 2.2 AA, axe DevTools, VoiceOverCore Web Vitals, Lighthouse, Chrome DevToolsFigma handoff, design tokens

Links and open source

  • GitHub: 6 pinned repositories with documented architecture decisions
  • Portfolio with 3 live deployed applications on Vercel
  • Contributor to an open source React component library (4 merged pull requests)
  • Technical blog: 9 posts on rendering performance and accessible components

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Profile

Frontend developer profile summary

Three or four lines: years of experience, the framework you are strongest in, the kind of product you built (consumer web, SaaS dashboard, design system, e-commerce), and one measured result. This paragraph decides whether the take-home gets sent, so every clause has to be defensible.

If you are moving from a general web developer role into a specialised frontend one, say so directly and show the depth: component architecture, state management, testing, a performance budget you owned. Breadth across WordPress and PHP does not read as frontend seniority, and pretending otherwise fails the first technical screen.

WeakPassionate frontend developer with strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React. Team player looking for a challenging role in a dynamic company where I can grow my skills.
StrongFrontend Developer, 4 years on React and TypeScript in consumer e-commerce. Built and maintained a 60-component design system in Storybook used by three product teams, cut Largest Contentful Paint on the catalog from 4.1s to 1.8s, and brought checkout to WCAG 2.2 AA with zero axe-core violations. Comfortable owning a feature from Figma handoff to a Vercel deploy behind a feature flag.
Tip
Name the React you actually write - hooks, context, Suspense, server components, TanStack Query - instead of the bare word 'React'. Everyone claims the word; the live coding round tests the detail.
Skills

Frontend developer skills for a resume

One framework you know deeply, the language and tooling around it, plus the two things interviewers use to separate frontend engineers from people who assemble components: accessibility and performance.

Hard skills

  • JavaScript (ES2023+): closures, promises, event loop, modules
  • TypeScript: generics, discriminated unions, typing a component API
  • React: hooks, context, Suspense, memoisation, React Server Components in Next.js
  • Modern CSS: flexbox, grid, container queries, custom properties, Tailwind CSS or CSS Modules
  • State and data: Redux Toolkit, Zustand, TanStack Query, optimistic updates
  • Build tooling: Vite, Webpack, code splitting, bundle analysis, tree shaking
  • Testing: Vitest or Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright or Cypress end to end
  • Accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA, semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard traps, axe DevTools, screen reader checks with VoiceOver or NVDA
  • Web performance: Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), Lighthouse, Chrome DevTools performance panel, image and font strategy
  • Design systems and handoff: Figma inspect, design tokens, Storybook, visual regression with Chromatic

Soft skills

  • Pushing back on a design that cannot be made accessible, with an alternative attached
  • Writing a pull request description a reviewer can follow without a meeting
  • Estimating UI work honestly, including the states nobody drew - empty, loading, error
  • Explaining a performance trade-off to a product manager in load time, not kilobytes
  • Reading a Figma file closely enough to catch the missing breakpoint before you build it
  • Reviewing other people's components without rewriting them in your own style
  • Turning vague feedback like 'it feels slow' into a measurement
  • Working with backend engineers on an API contract before the endpoint exists
  • Keeping a design system adopted: documentation, migration help, saying no to one-off variants
  • Clear written English in issues, RFCs and async reviews across time zones
Experience

How to write frontend developer experience

Formula: the interface you built, the technical decision behind it, the tool, and the measured result. Not 'developed UI components', but which surface, for how many users, and what moved after you shipped it.

Frontend work has unusually good metrics available, and most candidates throw them away. Core Web Vitals before and after, bundle size in kilobytes, conversion or bounce rate on the page you rebuilt, accessibility violations closed, component adoption across teams, flaky end-to-end tests removed. Pull them from Lighthouse, your analytics tool or your CI dashboard.

Weak- Developed responsive web pages using React and CSS and fixed bugs reported by QA.
Strong- Rebuilt the product listing page in Next.js with route-level code splitting and responsive images: Largest Contentful Paint fell from 4.1s to 1.8s on mobile, the JavaScript bundle dropped 380KB, and mobile add-to-cart rate rose 6% over a four-week A/B test.
What to include
Surface and traffic - framework and tooling - the architectural decision - Core Web Vitals, bundle size or conversion before and after - accessibility standard met - team size and review process.
Education

Education and credentials

Frontend is the most credential-indifferent engineering specialty in the US market: a computer science degree helps at large companies with structured campus pipelines, and almost nowhere else does it outweigh a deployed portfolio. Bootcamp graduates are hired constantly, and self-taught developers with real production experience are hired constantly. List the degree if you have one, then move on to proof.

  • Degree, university and graduation year - one line, no coursework lists after your first job
  • Bootcamp with the program name and the capstone project you can be questioned on
  • GitHub profile with pinned repositories that have README files and real commit history
  • Portfolio site and at least one live deployed application with a working URL
  • Open source contributions: the repository, what you changed, the merged pull request
  • Courses named with the thing you built in them, never just the enrolment
  • Technical writing: a blog post explaining a bug you fixed is worth more than a certificate
Careful
Check every link the week you apply. A 404 portfolio or a GitHub profile whose last commit is two years old does more damage than leaving the section out.
Junior

Frontend developer resume with no commercial experience

Junior frontend is the most crowded entry point in software, partly because the tutorials are excellent and everyone finishes the same three of them. A to-do app, a weather app and a clone of a streaming service landing page tell a reviewer nothing, because they have seen them a hundred times this month.

Build two or three applications that have a real problem in them: authentication, a paginated API with error and empty states, a form with validation and accessible error messaging, something deployed on a real URL with a CI pipeline. Write them up like work - what you chose, what broke, what you measured - and link the live site next to the repository.

  • 2-3 deployed projects with both a live URL and a public repository
  • One project that handles real data: an API, authentication, loading and error states
  • A Lighthouse score or accessibility audit you ran on your own project and then fixed
  • Freelance or volunteer work for a real client, written with what changed for them
  • Open source: even a documentation fix is a merged pull request with your name on it

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Mistakes

Common mistakes

A design-heavy resume that the parser cannot read

Frontend developers are the worst offenders here, because they can build something beautiful. Columns, icon fonts, sidebars and skill bars get flattened or dropped by applicant tracking systems, and your years of React disappear with them. Keep the artistry for the portfolio.

Skill-rating bars and percentages

'JavaScript 90%' means nothing to a reviewer and is unreadable to a parser. Nobody has ever been shortlisted for a wider bar. Replace them with what you built with the skill.

Every framework you have ever touched

React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Ember and Backbone in one line reads as a syllabus. Claim depth in one, working knowledge in a second, and expect the live round to test the first.

No accessibility anywhere

In the US market, accessibility is a legal and procurement requirement for a lot of buyers, and it is also the cheapest way to sound senior. A resume with no mention of semantic HTML, keyboard navigation or WCAG signals someone who has only ever built happy-path interfaces.

Broken or missing links

A frontend resume without a GitHub or portfolio link is unusual enough to raise a question. A link that 404s answers it badly. Test them on a phone, logged out, the day you send the application.

Describing team output as your own

'Built the company's design system' when you contributed four components collapses instantly in a follow-up question. Write your actual scope - it is usually still impressive, and it survives the interview.

Takeaways

Takeaways

Remember

  • Framework, TypeScript and build tool in the first screen
  • Core Web Vitals and bundle size as before-and-after numbers
  • Accessibility named with the standard and the tool
  • GitHub, portfolio and a live deployed URL in the header
  • One page under ten years, single column, no photo
  • Keywords rewritten to match each job posting
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

A web developer resume sells breadth: pages shipped, content management systems, some backend, sometimes deployment and SEO. A frontend developer resume sells depth in the browser. The reviewer wants component architecture, state management, TypeScript, testing, accessibility and performance budgets - the things that only matter once an application is large enough to break. If you are moving from web development into a frontend engineering title, rewrite your bullets around application complexity rather than the number of sites launched, and see the web developer page if the broader role is what you actually want.
Yes, as long as they are real and have README files that explain what the project does and what you decided. Reviewers are not looking for a famous library; they open one repository, scan the commit history and read a component. What hurts you is an empty profile, a wall of forked repositories with no commits of your own, or a pinned project whose README is still the framework's default text.
The Core Web Vitals, because they are what the business already tracks: Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint and Cumulative Layout Shift. Write them as before and after on a named page, and add the change you made - code splitting, image format, font loading strategy, removing a blocking third-party script. Bundle size in kilobytes is the second-best number. A Lighthouse score alone is weaker, because reviewers know how easy it is to game on a synthetic run.
Assume it is scored on more than whether the feature works. Reviewers look at component structure, whether you handled loading, empty and error states, whether the thing is keyboard accessible, whether there is a test, and whether the README explains your trade-offs and what you would do with more time. Keep to the stated time box and say what you cut. Over-engineering a four-hour task with a full state management library and a custom build is as common a rejection reason as an incomplete one.
No. Pick the ones in the job posting that you can defend, plus modern CSS itself. Interviewers care far more that you understand the cascade, specificity, flexbox and grid than that you have seen five component libraries. A candidate who can build a responsive accessible dropdown from scratch reads as stronger than one who lists eight libraries that each do it for them.
One page for anything under roughly ten years of experience, which is the US convention and the expectation at nearly every company you will apply to. Two pages are acceptable for long careers or when a security clearance or publication list is genuinely relevant. If you are at eighteen months of experience and running to two pages, the problem is that you are describing tasks instead of outcomes.
Both, differently. On the resume, write it as scale and adoption: how many components, how many teams consuming it, what it replaced, how much duplicate code went away, whether you shipped documentation and a migration path. In the portfolio, show the components and the tokens. Design system ownership is one of the clearest seniority signals in frontend hiring, so do not bury it under a generic 'built reusable components'.
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