Senior Frontend Engineer / UK
I build React and TypeScript applications, shared components and the tooling that takes them into production.
01 / About
React, TypeScript and the wider web platform.
I’m a senior frontend engineer with nearly two decades of experience across e-commerce, digital agencies and bespoke web applications. My role spans hands-on development, technical leadership and working with product, design and backend teams to turn requirements into working software.
At Fruugo, I work on an international e-commerce platform. Previously, I spent eight years in a fast-paced agency environment at DRPG delivering bespoke event and comms projects.
02 / How I work
I evaluate options, explain trade-offs and shape architecture that other developers can build on. When modernising existing systems, I balance technical debt, dependencies and migration risk with the needs of a live product.
I work with product, design and backend teams to clarify requirements, challenge assumptions and agree a practical approach. I break ambiguous work into deliverable steps, set priorities and connect UX and design decisions with the engineering needed to deliver them.
I mentor developers, review code and improve shared components, testing and tooling. I use AI-assisted development and automation to improve my own workflow and help the team tackle recurring tasks.
My responsibility continues after release. I work on build and deployment infrastructure, monitor errors, investigate incidents and diagnose performance problems, using what I learn in production to guide further improvements.
I make accessibility, internationalisation, mobile optimisation and performance part of product and architecture decisions from the start. I balance usability, security and privacy with the constraints of the platform, so the experience works well for the people relying on it.
03 / Projects
A household dashboard, a useful tool for tabletop fans, and a tiny browser game.
At Fruugo, I led the architecture and implementation of a migration from jQuery to React and TypeScript across more than 20 live frontend applications. I built the shared micro-frontend framework and dependency model, reducing JavaScript delivered to users while allowing applications to modernise incrementally.
I architected and built the shared component library and remain its leading contributor. I also established automated testing and standardised build and release tooling. I work with product, design and backend teams to improve internationalisation, accessibility and performance, and support the platform in production.
Household dashboard / React & TypeScript
A glanceable household dashboard built to run on old tablet, bringing together weather, calendars, school schedules, bin collections and birthdays.
A Fastify API normalises several providers and caches their responses in SQLite, keeping the display useful even when a source is unavailable.
Web application / React & TypeScript
Driven by my love of tabletop gaming, I’m building a concept application for discovering local tabletop venues, bringing a specialist dataset into a searchable guide with filters and an interactive map.
Built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS and MapLibre. The project explores how a small, focused dataset can be more useful than generalised ones like Google Maps, and how clear source attribution can improve the trustworthiness of information.
Browser game / JS13kGames 2019
I developed this first-person dungeon crawler for JS13kGames 2019, within the competition’s 13 KB size limit.
I built a custom raycasting engine, procedural maze generation, pathfinding and enemy AI, with synthesised sound using the Web Audio API.
04 / Get in touch
For roles, project enquiries or a conversation about frontend engineering, you can contact me on LinkedIn. My personal projects and source code are on GitHub.