Hi, I’m Samuel Lawrentz
I design and code beautifully
simple things
simple things
Software is a great combination between
artistry and engineering
artistry and engineering
Which makes me a Frontend Engineer
Recent Thoughts
02 Mar, 2024
"As a software engineer, your skill is in more demand than ever before, but it’s up to you…
26 Feb, 2024
Introduction: Lightning Fast Bundling with BunJS (and a dash of Kevin Hart) BunJS is the…
10 Feb, 2024
Are you wondering how to streamline your Git commit messages? Do you want to have a…
20 Jan, 2024
Typescript is a great tool to enforce coding standards and it helps in removing most of…
28 Oct, 2023
Hey there, folks! I'm back, and it's like I've been resurrected from the technological…
28 Apr, 2023
It was a fine day, I pulled up my phone and was mindlessly scrolling youtube. I came…
30 Mar, 2023
React, like a high-speed jet ski, boasts of its reactive state variables and props that…
27 Dec, 2022
As frontend developers, one of our main goals is to create fast and responsive user…
18 Nov, 2022
CSS has evolved greatly in recent years. A lot of things can be done using CSS alone. This…
24 Sep, 2022
React is reactive because of its reactive state variables and props. What if I told you…
20 Aug, 2022
For a long time, I was against the use of modern CSS properties and tools. This was…
12 Aug, 2022
Everyone loves speed - be it cars, superbikes, or websites. A good website (like this one…
10 Aug, 2022
I love React, and so do you! The Javascript ecosystem has grown so much that now we have…
05 Aug, 2022
We all start small, but once our content grows, soon we'll be finding ourselves with 300…
27 Jul, 2022
So this website is built using GatsbyJS, which is super cool and super easy to get started…
15 Jul, 2022
It has been a big journey of procastination and finally I was able to achieve it - A brand…
12 Jul, 2022
In this modern world, the world where everything is digital from currency to emotions, an…
10 Jul, 2022
I like to automate things very much, so I was looking for a way to automate my Instagram…
27 Jun, 2022
Sometimes you have a list of values to choose from and you want to randomize it? It can…
19 Jun, 2022
Warning!!! Technical content ahead! This is the first post I’ve written a bit technical…
2017
First Job - Burning Glass
I was hired as intern during campus placements, where I worked with C, C++ after which I became a full-time SDE
2018
Got into the Web development team
Not sure if it was my luck or destiny, I was moved to the web development that was incharge of building SPAs and dynamic web apps.
2019
Frontend Developer - Plivo
As a Frontend Developer, I was given total freedom to implement my learnings. My job was to build performant web pages.
2020
Covid - WFH - WTH
TBH, This year and the next year went by within a wink. All I did was sanitize my hands 3 times a day.
2021
Became SDE - UI, Contacto
I moved into a product engineering team at Plivo called "Contacto", where I worked with awesome tech stack - Electron, React, Vue, Redux, SCSS, etc
2022
Engineering teams are great
It's been a good year till now. Let's hope I learn more and more new things and implement and experiment those teachings in my work.