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Burlington Coat Factory / Burlington Stores

Senior Software Engineer | Full-stack

2024 — Present

Lead contributor on Burlington Stores' customer-facing site (Next.js 14 App Router, Sanity CMS, Vercel) — a platform serving ~20M annual users. Built the store locator end-to-end: autocomplete with zip/city/state/neighborhood, geolocation-based distance ranking, nearby-store recommendations, Stadia Maps integration, and ISR-revalidated sitemaps. Architected the ETL pipeline that ingests and reconciles store data from Lucernex, SOCI, and Stadia Maps with batch processing, retries, timezone/phone normalization, override fields, and Better Stack observability. Shipped an Algolia search-caching layer and hardened all ETL endpoints with bearer-token + origin-based CORS auth. Earlier in the engagement authored most of the reusable Sanity CMS block library — portable text, hero with newsletter signup, contact form, jobs cards, and deals grid.

Achievements

  • 1,200+ stores across the U.S.
More than 267+ commits across two phases · Feb 2024 – Apr 2026.
Led a site-wide accessibility sweep covering: removing aria-hidden from containers with focusable children, fixing invalid ARIA labels on SVG icons, replacing nested buttons inside anchors in the deals grid, guarding empty heading elements, adding accessible names to all form controls and modals, adding missing iframe titles, and fixing link text. Added Cypress coverage for carousel previous-button visibility and CMS guidance to encourage accessible link copy.
Sitemap support for store-locator pages with 24-hour ISR revalidation; prefetch optimization that skips duplicate fetches when data is already present.
Wired the OneTrust consent script through GTM (rather than inline) and built a POC for the client consent script on the privacy choices page.
  • Next.js 14
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Sanity CMS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vercel
  • Algolia
  • Stadia Maps
  • Cypress
  • Vitest

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