Rafiq
Ramadan

Senior Frontend Engineer

He/Him • Chicago, IL
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About

I'm Rafiq, a Frontend Engineer based in Chicago experienced in delivering a diverse array of accessible, enterprise-level applications, as well as UI/UX-focused personal projects.
  • Deloitte

    Deloitte

    March 2022 - PresentSenior Frontend Engineer
    • Led the design and development of a functional UI suite for embedded forms, enhancing the user experience for 23 million unique users between 2023 and 2025
    • Spearheaded Statewide One-Time Password system redesign with modern NodeJS AWS stack, improving response latency by an average of 5 seconds per request.
    • Rebuilt a state agency's One-Time-Password system from the ground-up with modern AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and notification services
    • Leveraged the React Context API to maintain data state integrity across the application’s notification system
    • Simplified end-to-end API with improved SQL and Hibernate persistence wrappers, reducing the number of necessary API calls by 50%
  • Accenture Federal Services

    Accenture Federal Services

    June 2017 - March 2022Systems Developer - Full Stack Engineer
    • Orchestrated section 508-compliance overhaul for agile team
    • Spearheaded TypeScript modernization effort, demonstrating efficiency of component-driven design architecture
    • Configured Hibernate criterion and API response body structures

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Professional Works

Each individual page includes deeper detail, as well as live links and open-source code, when available (project-depending).

IRS.gov -> Forms

 A federal contract through Deloitte, this project built and delivered an embedded forms system available to all US residents. Read Morearrow_right.BR4t0d0I.svg
  • React logoReact 17
  • Java logoJava
  • redux logoRedux
  • Jenkins logoJenkins CI/CD
  • Jest unit testing logoJest
  • Storybook logoStorybook
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Work Ohio

 Contract work with the state of Ohio for Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel's Ohio workforce initiative. A site built to help Ohio residents find work and training opportunities. Read Morearrow_right.BR4t0d0I.svg
  • React logoReact 18
  • Contentful logoContentful
  • Cloudinary logoCloudinary
  • Storybook logoStorybook
  • AWS Lambda logoAWS Lambda
  • Scss logoScss
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Personal Projects

These projects are no longer hosted live and in some cases are outdated examples of my current development skills, style, and strategies. They serve as a roadmap of my development from starting this career in 2017 however and I'm still proud of them for what (and when) they were.

Static Site Designs (2025)

 Including this site, I've designed, built, and deployed 2 responsive websites with AstroJS and Tailwind CSS. Read Morearrow_right.BR4t0d0I.svg
  • astroAstroJS
  • tailwindTailwind CSS
  • ReactReact
  • NodeJSNodeJS
  • denoDeno Deploy
  • viteVite
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ThreeJS Portfolio (2023)

 A vaporwave & coffee-themed personal/portfolio website created with pure vanilla HTML5, CSS3, and JS except the background, which is crafted by ThreeJS, a Javascript library for rendering and animated 3D models in the browser. Read Morearrow_right.BR4t0d0I.svg
  • htmlHTML5
  • cssCSS3
  • jsJavascript
  • NodeJSNodeJS
  • threeJsLogoThreeJS
  • vercelLogoVercel Deploy
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Top 5 Spotify (2021)

 My "I'm going to teach myself React" project from 2021, built from the ground up to practice using ReactJS, responsive design, and asynchronous integration with a public API. Read Morearrow_right.BR4t0d0I.svg
  • ReactReact
  • AxiosAxios
  • ExpressExpressJS
  • NodeJSNodeJS
  • bootstrapReact Bootstrap
  • HerokuHeroku Deploy
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