About
I am an experienced senior frontend engineer, proven to develop large-scale web-apps and lead successful development teams.
My core skills
- Problem-solving – I love a challenge and finding the optimum solution for a problem
- A product-focussed outlook – Assisting in scoping, prototyping, developing and iterating new features
- Team leadership – I enjoy leading a productive team of developers, inspiring them to produce the best work possible, organising daily team tasks, overseeing development work, and mentoring juniors
- Collaborative – Being the ‘team glue’ that connects cross-functional teams together and keeps projects moving
- I’m organised – I produce logical, well structured and easily maintained codebases
- I have a degree and background in digital design – I have a sharp eye and build designs into pixel-perfect websites and apps
- I’m friendly, approachable, communicative and questioning. I don’t work in a silo.
- I take great pride in what I do
Broad experience
- 20 years’ experience in website and web-app builds
- Produced 6 medium to large commercial Vue JS & Nuxt JS websites/web-apps
- Produced 50+ WordPress websites since 2008 – there’s not a lot I don’t know about WordPress!
- Experience in working for some of the best agencies in London including Digitas LBi, Possible, TMW and Tangent, along with multiple small studios and startups
Technologies Used
- Vanilla JavaScript (inc. ES6), Vue JS, Vuex, Vuex-ORM, Nuxt JS
- Writing unit and E2E tests using Jest and Cypress
- Integrations with API-based CMSs such as GraphCMS and Contentful
- CSS, SASS, BEM
- PHP (inc. OO)
- MySQL
- Git
- WordPress (Custom themes, custom plugins, custom post types & taxonomies, ACF, WPML, WooCommerce)
- NPM, Yarn, Webpack, Vagrant
- Search engine optimisation
- Google Lighthouse optimisation
Background
- 2019-present Onvi: Lead front-end developer
- 2012-2019 Freelance (contract) front-end developer
- 2009-2012 Joe Smalley, Old St, London: Website designer & developer, B2B web agency specialising in WordPress websites for small businesses
- 2008-2009 Electric Studio, Oxford: Website designer & developer
- 2004-2008 Motion Studio, Oxford: Print & branding designer
- 2001-2004 University of Glamorgan: BA Graphic Communication 2:1
- 1997 Coded first website at age 14
Notable Clients
- Infiniti
- The Financial Times
- Haymarket Publishing
- Samsung
- Unilever
- Lulu Guinness
Agencies:
- TMW
- Possible Worldwide
- Tangent
- HeyHuman
- Digitas LBi
- Breakthrough Media
- Zinc Network