CandidateX
React and design-system work for a hiring platform with repeated product screens, admin workflows, and a growing user base.
Key Results
The Challenge
CandidateX had a hiring platform with 10K+ users and a frontend that was carrying too many one-off decisions. Similar screens were being rebuilt in different ways, which made product work slower and made the UI harder to keep consistent.
The Approach
I focused on three things: modernizing the React setup, turning repeated product screens into shared UI patterns, and giving the team a clearer way to organize frontend work.
Tech decisions:
- Migrated from legacy React to Vite + Redux Toolkit for better DX and performance
- Switched to Chakra UI for built-in accessibility
- Set up Nx monorepo to manage the growing codebase
What I Built
- Reusable component library for common product screens and flows
- Shared UI system with consistent tokens, spacing, and interaction patterns
- Migration path that let the team adopt new patterns without stopping feature work
- Documentation for component usage, app structure, and data flow
The Results
The team reported faster feature delivery after the shared UI work. Instead of rebuilding common pieces from scratch, developers could compose screens from a clearer set of patterns.
The Nx monorepo setup also made it easier to organize multiple apps and shared packages without mixing ownership across the codebase.