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Senior Frontend Engineer
Nick McNeany
Ten-plus years shipping accessible, high-performance web apps. Rails and Hotwire on the back end. Agentic engineering ahead.
Projects
Things I have shipped
Side projects and teaching, built on my own time with the same standards I bring to work.
SprintVibe
AI-assisted sprint planning with a real-time kanban board and an MCP server so coding agents can pick up and update work.
Ruby on Rails 8 and Hotwire Course
A highly rated Udemy course. Build a password manager with Rails 8 and Hotwire, and learn modern Rails best practices along the way.
History
Past Experiences Built My Foundation
I started building for the web in 2011, when the job was HTML, CSS, and enough JavaScript to make a landing page behave. The fundamentals came first: semantics, accessibility, performance, and designing for the smallest screen before the largest.
From there the stack widened. WordPress themes for sixteen brands. Rails views becoming React apps at a high-traffic fintech. A multi-brand component library built so three product lines could share one design language. A year in Go and AWS, shipping APIs and Terraform. Then back to the front end to lead a security platform's move from jQuery to Hotwire, with a ViewComponent library the whole team builds on.
Every one of those years taught the same pillars in a different costume: understand the user, respect the constraint, build the smallest thing that works, make it accessible, measure it, and leave the codebase clearer than you found it.
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Future
A Strong Foundation for the Future
Agentic engineering does not replace those pillars. It tests them. When a coding agent can draft a feature in minutes, the scarce skills become the ones the years built: knowing what to build, how to scope it, what good looks like, and how to tell when it is wrong.
I use Claude Code and Copilot every day, and I built SprintVibe (opens in a new tab) so agents can read a backlog and update it as they ship. This site was planned and built that way. The work is directing, reviewing, and setting the standards an agent builds to: accessibility, performance, and code a human can still read.
That is the beam: the same fundamentals, pointed forward.
Skills
What I work with
The tools change. The fundamentals of building for people on the web do not.
Frontend
- JavaScript and TypeScript
- React
- Vue
- React Native
- HTML5 and CSS3
- SCSS
- Responsive design
- Accessibility (WCAG)
- Tailwind
- Bootstrap
- Material UI
- Vuetify
- ERB and HAML
Frameworks and backend
- Ruby on Rails
- Hotwire (Turbo, Stimulus, Hotwire Native)
- ViewComponent
- ActiveRecord
- PostgreSQL
- REST APIs and JSON
- Go
AI tools
- Claude Code
- GitHub Copilot
- Daily use for feature work, refactoring, and automation
Tooling and testing
- Git, GitHub, Bitbucket
- Storybook
- esbuild and Webpack
- Importmaps
- RSpec and minitest
- Capybara
- Jest
Data visualization
- Highcharts
- Chart.js
- Google Charts
- Databricks
Contact
Say hello
Have a project, a role, or a Rails question? My inbox is open.