Product Engineer · Finance of America · Los Angeles, CA
Klea Merkuri.
I design and ship user-facing products — from design systems to full-stack tools I actually use.
Design systems, polished web experiences, high-conversion flows, and shipped products — currently at Finance of America. Before that, I led a 5K-article Gatsby migration at Experian that cut load times ~20%.
5K+articles migrated20%faster loadsWCAG 2.1compliance5%monthly lead growth
Portfolio Copilot
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Selected Work
Projects
Systems architected, products shipped, and tools built for enterprise scale.
Stripe First 300 | Interactive Visual Storytelling
Sub-second load targets — WCAG-accessible micro-interactions
Built an interactive web experience inspired by Stripe's visual storytelling patterns, exploring high-performance layouts, custom micro-interactions, and…
ReactCSSAnimation+1
VersoID – Digital Identity Platform
Multiple professional personas — shareable via QR, one tap to switch
A Flutter-based digital identity management app that lets users create and share multiple professional personas with QR codes. Switch between work, creator,…
FlutterDartQR Codes+2
Eve – Portfolio RAG Assistant
Primary recruiter interface — RAG over vector store
A Portfolio Copilot powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Gemini function calling. Built on Supabase pgvector and Edge Functions, Eve retrieves…
ReactSupabaseVector Embeddings+2
HOA Connect | Full-Stack Dashboard & Local AI
Production dashboard — local AI extraction with human review gate
Built and launched a production dashboard for residents, owning end-to-end user flows and frontend experience. Designed intuitive document-processing workflows…
ReactSupabaseOllama+2
Writing
Technical Insights
Performance, accessibility, and AI integration.
Shipped Tools
Products
Extensions and utilities built to improve developer workflows and user productivity.
LIVE
VersoID
A Flutter-based digital identity management app that lets users create and share multiple professional personas with QR codes. Switch between work, creator, and social identities with a single tap. Available on iOS and Android.
LIVE
Prompt Optimizer
A Chrome extension that upgrades prompts into clearer, more detailed, and more effective versions for AI models like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. The May 2026 release adds snippets and Ollama support.
LIVE
Job Atlas
Notion-inspired Chrome extension designed to revolutionize how you search for roles. Instantly save and organize job postings from any career site into a private, searchable pipeline. Capture, track, and manage your entire job search journey locally.
Utility Library
Career
Experience
Software Developer @ Finance of America
Sep 2025 – Present
- Own frontend experiences across 5+ enterprise web properties, building reusable UI patterns and design-system infrastructure with accessibility and performance in mind.
- Translate Figma designs into responsive, conversion-focused experiences and lead-capture flows, contributing to an average 5% monthly combined lead-submit growth.
- Build internal tooling, MCP workflows, and automated Playwright/CI pipelines that reduce friction between design, development, and release validation.
Education
Bachelor's in Economics
University of California, Los Angeles · Summa Cum Laude
Background
About
I'm a software engineer who likes working where product, design, and systems meet to build polished interfaces, design systems, and the tooling behind them.
I studied Economics at UCLA, then found myself increasingly drawn to the engineering side of product work. Especially in understanding how systems behave, where they break, and how to make the experience on top of them better.
At Finance of America, I own frontend experiences and design-system infrastructure across enterprise properties. Before that, at Experian, I led a headless Gatsby migration across 5,000+ blog articles — cut load times ~20% — and built interactive WebGL/Canvas experiences.
Outside work, I ship tools I actually use: VersoID, a Flutter app for managing professional personas via QR codes (live on iOS and Android), plus Chrome extensions and MCP experiments documented on The Helpful Tipper.
Frontend & Product EngineerDesign Systems & AccessibilityInteractive Web & WebGLAI & Developer Tooling
Architecture
Headless CMS migrations and real-time data pipelines
- React
- Gatsby
- Next.js
- GraphQL
Mobile & AI
Cross-platform apps and context-aware AI workflows
- Flutter
- Python
- RAG
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Quality
Accessible design systems and developer tooling
- Design Systems
- WCAG 2.1 AA
- TypeScript
- Node.js