Alyssa MelendezDesigner & Frontend Engineer

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LOCATION
Cleveland, OH
SOCIAL
@alyssakirstine
CONTACT
alyssakirstine@gmail.com

About Me

/Who Am I

👋 Hello there, I’m Alyssa.
I have many interests. By day, I am a frontend engineer primarily using React and TypeScript. By night, I am problem solver, entrepreneur, creator, writer, and lifelong learner.

If you’re reading this and you want to connect, don’t be a stranger. I love meeting and connecting with new people. I am also available for freelance work. You can reach me using my contact form at the bottom of this page.

Check out my GitHub to see what I’m currently building.

Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

- Anonymous -

Resume

/My Career Journey

Education
Class of 2020

B.S. in Computer Science

Miami University

Graduated Summa Cum Lauda with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Interactive Media Studies.

Experience
2022 - PRESENT

Founder and Frontend Web Developer

Cosite

Providing frontend web development for high-growth technology companies. Clients include Curology, Agency Skincare, The New York Times, Luaka Bop, and more.

Adjunct Instructor

Miami University

Visiting faculty for Miami University's Emerging Technology in Business + Design department. Teaching required web development course sequence of HTML/CSS/JS programming languages to students.

2023 - PRESENT
2020 - 2022

Frontend Engineer, Site

Curology

My team at Curology is in charge of curology.com and withagency.com. We collaborate with cross-functional teams like marketing and design to create new pages and features for these sites.

Freelance Developer

Self-Employed

As a freelance web developer, I provide web design, web development, and SEO services to small business, startups, and entrepreneurs.

2013 - PRESENT
Fall 2019

Software Engineering Intern

Curology

Developed solutions to improve the patient experience. First intern on Curology's engineering team.

Software Developer Intern

Epic Systems

Owned a meaningful and challenging project to help shape the future of healthcare.

Summer 2019
2013 - 2019

Lead Developer

Virtual Support Teks

Virtual Support Teks develops custom applications for businesses looking to simplify and streamline their workflow.

Software Developer Intern

Union Home Mortgage

Co-developed a universal design system for the company and redesigned their front-facing website. Technologies used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, C#, Agile

Summer 2018
FEB 2018

Startup Weekend

Miami University

Startup Weekend is a 3-day competition where students develop a business idea, validate their idea with potential customers, and present their developed idea to industry professionals.

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Statistics

12years building websites
NaNlines of code
2degrees

Portfolio

/My Best Work

I’ve undertaken many different projects. Whether it was done independently, for school, or for work, below you can view the ones I’m most proud of.

testimonials

I’ve worked with Alyssa for several years now and have always been happy with the results. She pays close attention to detail and understands what I need, often clarifying my ideas. Her thoughtful approach and clear communication make the process easy and enjoyable every time.
BRENDA WEBER, CH INTERIOR DESIGNS
We love Alyssa — we can't say it enough! She is ever-practical, realistic, enthusiastic. And she explains things so thoughtfully that even I can understand. She has seen us through many emergencies, while making sure that we our prepared for our future. Our website gets more traffic than ever now, which, thanks to her, it can handle with ease.
ELIZA GRACE MARTIN, LUAKA BOP
Working with Alyssa on scaling our landing page system in Contentful was a game-changer for our team at Curology. What previously took over a month from request to launch—requiring input from marketing, design, engineering, copy, and legal teams—was streamlined into a self-service system that our marketing team could operate independently. Throughout the project, Alyssa was incredibly easy to work with—she understood our business needs, communicated clearly, and delivered exactly what we needed to scale our operations, and I would highly recommend her and Cosite to any team looking to streamline their landing page and/or content management workflows!

SARAH MERLIN, CUROLOGY
Alyssa Melendez is that rare combination — someone who is as dependable and hard-working as she is talented and smart. I’ve seen her at work in both a writing class and a college newsroom. In both settings her work has been better than excellent. This includes a full-scale re-design and re-implementation of a college newspaper website that any advanced designer would be proud of — yet Alyssa pulled if off as a college freshman, and all by herself. Fellow students think of her as a great colleague. She’ll be a credit to any organization she joins.
JAMES TOBIN, JOURNALISM PROFESSOR AND ADVISOR
Alyssa is a highly technical, yet creative individual, who has developed complex applications and aesthetically-pleasing websites for our clients. Thank you Alyssa for being a pleasure to work with and helping us take our business to the next level.
BRIAN MELENDEZ, VIRTUAL SUPPORT TEKS
I mentored Alyssa and worked with her directly during her summer internship at Union Home Mortgage. She is a talented developer with a strong ability to quickly pick up on new tech and creatively solve business challenges. Alyssa was a key team member in developing, testing and implementing our Design System from scratch. She was able to learn React.js very quickly with the team and her keen eye for detail and creative ideas helped us improve and innovate our UI library and the documentation associated with it. In addition, she also lead the re-design and UX for our Payment Portal App. Her back-end dev chops gained momentum as we worked on redesigning the new Union Home Mortgage corporate website as she touched many different layers of this project.
TESSA NEWBACHER, UNION HOME MORTGAGE
Alyssa is a smart front-end developer. She has a hunger for learning new things and passion for improving a UI/UX. She was able to adept to a team environment quickly. She became a contributing team member in no time. She enjoys working with a team as well as alone. I would love to have her join my team again. She will prove to be a great asset for any team.
CHIRAG PATEL, UNION HOME MORTGAGE

Contact

/Let’s Connect

If you’re reading this and you want to connect, don’t be a stranger. I love meeting and connecting with new people. Feel free to email me and I will get back to you as soon as I can.