I'm a front-end focused developer who specialises in JavaScript. I have over 8 years experience creating and optimising web UI's, apps and deliverables. I mainly work with React and Vue, JAMstack, and headless software in the web.
Things I've Worked On:
π¦ - Lead Fintech MVP Front End creation for an Identification app (Used by Natwest, BetFred and Vanquis)
π§βπ¨ - SME Design Consultancies and built β¨beautifulβ¨ web applications for brands and orgs like LVMH and Gov.uk
π - Created and contributed to lots of different eCommerce applications such as Solopress, Total Fishing Tackle and πΈ Craft Gin Club
Things I Want to Work On:
Web applications which are altruistic in their nature and backed by a passionate, honest team who accept each others strengths and weakness, and who prefer to think for themselves and not follow fads. I want to help solve real world problems -- faced by everyday people, and I want to do it with a tech stack that has great defaults. A tech stack which is as decouplable, delcarative, and easy to work with as possible. It's my experience that tech like that allows a team to create freely and happily, whilst avoiding pitfalls and bugs.
Where I Work Well:
In remote-first autonomous teams where I can learn, and teach new things! I like a diverse range of people, from different places and cultures, and I enjoy the abstract thinking which that can ignite. I work well in product teams where I can focus and create, iteratively. I seek out management and colleagues that coach, mentor and collaborate with empathy.
Hobbies:
I play πΈ guitar, bass, mandolin and harmonica. I like to cook (mostly Mediterranean and Asian cuisine). I have a π and I like to take long walks on the beach and in the woods. Thats only when I can get tear myself away from coding and video games π»!. Currently I'm learning TypeScript and ζ₯ζ¬θͺ π―π΅ (Japanese is easier π€―) When I grow up I want to write books and work 3 days a week.
Likes:
- π¨ JAVASCRIPT (it's not weird, just misunderstood π)
- People with interesting stories
- Cats (dogs too, but cats)
- Dumplings π₯
- Spending 2 hours automating something to save myself half an hour
- Stoicism
- Secure people who encourage and motivate
- Yak shaving and tinkering with some library/pattern/nonsense I will never use in prod
- The color red π₯
Dislikes:
- Too much social media
- Tumultuousness
- People who talk a lot but don't say anything
- Evil AI π€πΏ
- Censorship and cult thinking
- Insecurity manifesting in egos, nitpicking and micromanagement π‘
- Zippy from Rainbow