Hello, I'm

Thomas Brushel.

A Creative Front-End Engineer

With 9 years of experience, I build responsive, accessible, and high-performance websites, crafting modern user interfaces that delight users and drive results.

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About Me
A seasoned Front-End Developer with nearly a decade of experience in high-impact UI/UX design and implementation. I excel at transforming complex business requirements into clean, efficient, and user-friendly digital experiences. My career, spanning demanding advertising and fast-paced e-commerce environments, has equipped me to handle the full project lifecycle—from initial concept through to final deployment. I specialize in developing essential customer-facing features, and comprehensive site optimizations, with a consistent focus on elevating performance, accessibility, and code quality. I thrive on collaborative problem-solving to deliver pixel-perfect results.
When I'm not coding, I love speding time with my girlfriend and our Austrailian shepard and cat. I also love taking road trips and exploring new spots in San Diego.

Experience

Frontend Developer — Undercover Tourist
2020 — November 2025
  • • Owned front-end development for marketing experiences, delivering responsive landing pages, emails, and site components with consistent, accessible UI.
  • • Led the migration from Foundation to Tailwind CSS—reskinning 100+ pages and removing legacy code to improve performance and maintainability.
  • • Built and maintained a shared component library and style guide in partnership with design, speeding up feature development and standardizing UI.
  • • Optimized the JavaScript codebase by eliminating redundancy and improving structure for scalability and performance.
  • • Collaborated with design, marketing, and engineering to ensure all deliverables met brand, usability, and accessibility standards.
Front-End Developer — Wantable
2020 — 2020
  • • Developed performant, cross-browser web interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks and tooling, including React and TypeScript, while maintaining legacy AngularJS, CoffeeScript, HAML, and SCSS codebases.
  • • Built scalable, reusable UI components and refactored older patterns to improve maintainability, performance, and developer experience.
  • • Resolved complex browser compatibility issues—especially in Internet Explorer—using targeted CSS strategies and progressive enhancement techniques.
  • • Collaborated closely with designers and backend engineers to deliver features on schedule and align UI implementation with product requirements.
Web Designer/Front-End Developer - Trivera Interactive
Aug 2016 — Aug 2017
  • • Contributed to information architecture and site structure planning to improve user flow and clarity across large website projects.
  • • Designed high-fidelity wireframes and converted them into responsive, production-ready UI layouts.
  • • Developed landing pages and microsites for agency clients using WordPress and Concrete5, ensuring clean HTML/CSS and accessible, mobile-friendly implementation.
  • • Built custom HTML email templates for marketing campaigns, optimizing for cross-client compatibility and improved deliverability.
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Tools & Tech Stack
react
Testimonials
Graham N.

I had the opportunity to work closely with Thomas at Wantable Inc. Thomas is a talented front-end engineer with with a knack for developing solutions that are beautiful, functional, and user centric. I would highly recommend Thomas in an any development capacity.

Joseph M.

If there’s anything I look for when considering a candidate for a position it’s their curiosity. I find that curiosity is one of the most important traits in frontend development because of how rapidly the field changes within a few years. Thomas has that spark that keeps him learning in and out of work because I saw that when he worked at Wantable; that he truly enjoyed what he did for a living. That meant that Thomas was able to accelerate quickly and became a crucial part of the frontend team. I was able to rely on him heavily for various tasks. He always had an amazing attitude and always accepted any type of work I gave him with open arms. That was one of the reasons that Thomas was able to get promoted so quickly from being a junior frontend developer. Even when Thomas went from working in the office every day to working remote in Austin, Texas there was was no drop in the quality of his work. He’s an honest and genuine person and he is a pleasure to work with.

Jessica R.

I had the pleasure of working with Thomas for a year at Wantable, and speak honestly when I say that would highly recommend him in any frontend development capacity. Thomas not only has the development chops to make UIs shine and UX function properly, but he also has a keen eye for design and the small tweaks it can take to make a screen/view really stand out. During the year we spent on the same team, Thomas never faltered at any task, and was always willing and looking to take on bigger and more challenging projects. Any team that is lucky enough to have the opportunity to hire Thomas should jump on the chance; they will not be disappointed.

Omelio H.

Thomas and I worked together with professional, but also have plans someday to work on some side projects together. He is always learning and staying up-to-date with frontend frameworks and best practices. Whenever I am in need help outside of work with anything Front-end related, He's the first person I reach out too.

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Contact

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