Jason McCullough

Jason McCullough

Frontend-focused product engineer

Frontend-focused product engineer with 15+ years across product teams, startups, ecommerce, and agency delivery. I turn incomplete ideas and complex customer and operational workflows into clear product decisions, maintainable interfaces, and buildable systems. My work spans requirements, architecture, UX, and implementation.

Core capabilities

Product engineering

Requirements, workflow mapping, MVP scoping, and technical planning.

Frontend systems

Responsive, maintainable interfaces and reusable component systems.

Workflow + operations

Customer journeys, administrative tools, inventory, and fulfillment.

Technical leadership

Tradeoff evaluation, documentation, and cross-functional delivery.

Experience

Technical Lead / Full-Stack Product Engineering

Orbit Crates · Full-time

Glastonbury, CT · Hybrid

  • Owned technical direction for an early-stage toy-rental ecommerce startup, translating the business model into product architecture, customer and staff workflows, and an implementation plan.
  • Rebuilt the React and Next.js customer and administrative experiences around a shared crate lifecycle spanning current rentals, draft swaps, submitted fulfillment, inventory status, and history.
  • Designed and implemented APIs and Firebase data models for crate swaps, reservations, inventory changes, fulfillment, and historical records, integrated with Shopify and Recharge.
  • Partnered with the founder and technical team on MVP scope and tradeoffs, then documented the architecture, migration, testing, and handoff.
Read the OrbitCrates case study

Frontend / Ecommerce Engineer

theCostumeKitty.com · Contract

Hybrid

  • Maintained and customized the Shopify storefront, resolving UI issues and improving responsive behavior and content presentation.
  • Supported product entry, inventory workflows, storefront maintenance, and ecommerce administration directly with the business owner.

Career break: Full-time parenting

Greater Hartford Area

Stepped away from full-time software development to focus on family responsibilities. During this period, I stayed connected to frontend development, ecommerce, CMS platforms, and product-oriented web technology before returning to contract and startup development work.

Front End Web Developer

TCGplayer.com

Greater Syracuse–Auburn Area

  • Created a responsive prototype covering roughly 90% of the marketplace’s customer-facing page types during a one-week internal hackathon.
  • Designed and built an in-store catalog and ordering kiosk from wireframes and customer flows through frontend development and API integration.
  • Built a system of more than 20 storefront templates supporting more than 600 retailer websites hosted in Umbraco Cloud.
Read the TCGplayer case study

Front End Web Developer

ZAG Interactive

Glastonbury, CT

  • Developed responsive CMS-driven websites with designers, backend developers, and project stakeholders through QA, launch, and support.
  • Built a reusable frontend scaffold, templates, and components for Kentico, Umbraco, and Sitefinity projects.

Front End Web Developer

drinkcaffeine

Madison, CT

  • Served as the primary frontend developer across agency websites, campaign builds, and CMS projects from design handoff through launch and maintenance.
  • Created reusable templates and page structures while supporting estimates, technical planning, browser compatibility, CMS integration, and delivery standards.

Independent product work

NobBot.tv

Product strategy · UX/UI · Full-stack engineering

Designed and built a Twitch music-request platform from concept through a successful live-stream alpha. I created fair rotation and cooldown rules, kept Twitch chat, the dashboard, player, and public queue synchronized in real time, and turned listening history into community analytics.

Read the NobBot case study

Skills

Product

  • Product planning
  • Requirements definition
  • Workflow mapping
  • MVP scoping
  • UX/UI
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • Technical architecture
  • Implementation planning
  • Documentation

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Vue.js
  • HTML
  • CSS/Sass
  • Responsive interface development

Platforms

  • Shopify
  • Recharge
  • Firebase
  • Node.js
  • Umbraco
  • Kentico
  • Sitefinity
  • REST APIs

Domains

  • Ecommerce
  • Subscriptions
  • Customer accounts
  • Admin and operational tooling
  • Inventory workflows
  • CMS-driven products