Frontend Architecture Refactoring & Component Standardization
Lead Frontend Engineer — reducing duplication across admin and agent experiences by moving toward a single source of truth for forms, lists, and shared UI.
DRY violations and heavy maintenance
The legacy UI had deep structural duplication: separate add vs edit components, parallel pages across admin and agent portals, and utility widgets copied into multiple trees. Even a simple label or validation tweak required touching many isolated files, which slowed delivery and increased regression risk.
Component-driven, unified surfaces
Led a refactor toward component-driven development: merged add/edit into one dynamic form keyed by route params (e.g. /:id), collapsed duplicated portal pages into shared views with RBAC, and hoisted repeated pieces (such as activity logs) into a centralized shared library.
Impact
Materially shrank the surface area of the UI codebase and cut ongoing maintenance cost: fixes and visual tweaks increasingly land in one place, propagating consistently across both portals instead of chasing copies in siloed folders.
Architecture transformation
High-level view of structure before vs after. Diagrams are illustrative of the pattern, not a literal repo map.
Before — legacy duplication
Separate add/edit routes, mirrored portal pages, and duplicated widgets (e.g. activity logs) meant every small change fanned out across many files.
After — unified, component-driven
One dynamic form per module driven by route params, shared list and log components, and RBAC to branch admin vs agent behavior without duplicating screens.