Senior Frontend Engineer
React, React Native & UI Systems
Kalamazoo, MIReact, React Native & UI Systems
ChrisHoneysett
Frontend & MobileEngineering
Kalamazoo, MI
I build reusable React foundations and take complex web and mobile interfaces from architecture through release. My work connects component systems, data-rich dashboards, and React Native apps with asynchronous device and cloud behavior. My background in print design gives me an eye for typography, layout, and visual consistency.
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01 / Selected work
The pieces
come together.
Across public websites, internal tools, and connected mobile apps, I turn project goals into practical interface decisions. These projects show how I translate requirements and designs into reusable components, working interfaces, and released applications.
Some project names, imagery, and details are kept general to respect client confidentiality.
Connected Access Control
I lead application development for a released React Native access-control app, coordinating device sessions, offline data, and UI with specialist security contributions.
Connected Power Management
As primary React Native developer for BLE connectivity and UI, I built the battery-control interface and collaborated on a shared API for local and cloud control.
Auris Internal Component Library
I identified the need for a shared frontend starting point and created Auris: composable React components, a CSS theme, Storybook documentation, and a private npm package used in client work.
Charity Water Dashboard
I inherited a Vue well-monitoring dashboard, advocated for a React rebuild, and implemented it using my Auris foundation, with sensor tables, maps, charts, and exports.
University of California Irvine School of Medicine
I led frontend implementation, responsive CSS, and shared content structure for UC Irvine’s School of Medicine and department sites, building on Drupal, React, and an existing component library.
Indiana High School Athletic Association
I led the Drupal website and embedded React tournament app, integrating MaxPreps data. Drupal Views and query-string routing let visitors switch tournament content without a full-page reload and share links to specific tournaments.
02 / Capabilities
Technical
strengths.
I build responsive interfaces, reusable components, and clear APIs that help teams develop and maintain products. My graphic design background informs the visual details; my engineering experience supports the structure behind them.
Current Focus
React · React Native · TypeScript · JavaScript · HTML · CSS / SCSS
Frontend Architecture
Component APIs and composition · Shared frontend foundations · State coordination · Application and library boundaries · Shared BLE / cloud control interfaces
UI Systems
Component libraries and themes · Storybook examples and documentation · Responsive layouts and navigation · Figma-to-code implementation
Testing & Recovery
Behavioral tests · Asynchronous failure-path tests · Interrupted and competing operations · Subscription and task cleanup · Preserving pending data after failures
Application Integration
Amplify and Cognito account flows · Authenticated service requests · Bluetooth and NFC · SQLite · Expo / EAS · iOS & Android delivery
Delivery & Team Support
Frontend project leadership · Designer and firmware collaboration · Client communication · Integration documentation · Private npm packages · GitHub Actions and CI/CD
Earlier Professional Experience
Vue · Drupal · Adobe AEM · Embedded React applications
03 / Career path
Each step builds
on the last.
My path from print design to software has been shaped by changing tools and the needs of the people using them. Each transition adds to how I approach the next.
I began in print production and graphic design, learning to think about what an audience needs to see and understand. As the print business declined, I looked toward digital work.
Flash
I carried that design foundation into interactive projects, learning Flash and ActionScript to make experiences people could explore and use.
Web
When Flash faded, I brought design and interaction into web development: first HTML and CSS, then JavaScript applications built with React and Vue.
Mobile
The same frontend skills now carry into React Native apps for connected products. At Twisthink, I build mobile interfaces and coordinate work across hardware, cloud services, and design.
AI
AI is the next chapter in that progression. I use it to explore options, prototype, and implement features while I remain responsible for the decisions, review, and quality of what ships.
04 / Experience
One career.
Several chapters.
I have led frontend delivery for consumer brands, public institutions, and connected products, supporting applications through release and continued development.
Apr 2023 — Present3 years 8 months
Twisthink
Senior Software Engineer
I build reusable React foundations and web interfaces, and contribute to two released React Native apps. I lead application development for connected access control and serve as the primary React Native developer for battery-app BLE connectivity and UI. I collaborate with cloud engineers and specialists responsible for BLE and NFC security implementations. I also build TypeScript APIs that let app developers work with connected devices without handling device-specific message formats directly.
Sep 2020 — Apr 20232 years 8 months
Gravity Works
Senior Frontend Developer
Led development of Drupal websites and embedded React applications for education, athletics, arts, and public-sector organizations. Built shared site structures and integrated external data, ticketing, registration, and permission-controlled financial workflows.
Jul 2009 — Sep 202011 years 3 months
VML / Biggs | Gilmore
Lead Technologist
Led frontend development for major consumer brands, including Ford, Kellogg’s, Cottonelle, and Walmart, as well as pro bono projects for nonprofit organizations. Delivered responsive websites and application features using React, Vue, Adobe AEM, and Drupal.
Jul 2002 — Jul 20097 years 1 month
North American Color, Inc.
Prepress Systems Operator / Graphic Designer / Digital Press Operator
Managed graphic design, image manipulation, print preparation, and digital press operations.
Jan 2002 — Dec 202423 years
Honeysett Design
Freelance Designer / Developer
Worked directly with arts and education clients on responsive websites, marketing, branding, and graphic design, much of it for theatrical productions. Concurrent theatre technical direction involved production planning and crew coordination.
05 / What carries through
A designer's eye.
An engineer's care.
While studying theatre technology at DePaul, I discovered graphic design. That became the starting point for my career in print and interactive media, then frontend engineering and mobile apps. I continued theatre technical direction as side work, where production planning and crew coordination strengthened skills I still use with clients and teams. Today I draw on that experience to understand the goal, connect design and engineering, and carry the details through release and improvement.
Foundation
B.F.A. Theatre Technology
Minor Graphic Design
DePaul University · Chicago, IL
06 / Share card
Frontend & mobile engineering
ChrisHoneysett
Chris Honeysett
Senior Frontend Engineer
React, React Native & UI Systems
Kalamazoo, MI
chrishoneysett.dev
06 / RESUME
Experience,
on paper.
Senior Frontend Engineer | React, React Native & UI Systems
My experience, capabilities, education, and selected project highlights in a two-page PDF.
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