Senior Web Developer & Designer

Led product strategy, technical architecture, and full-stack delivery for a two-sided UK venue marketplace, from concept and brand direction through to a production-ready platform with paying users and a working regional SEO foundation.

Key achievements

• Designed and built the full marketplace platform using Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, and Tailwind CSS, including seeker discovery, seller onboarding, Stripe Connect payments, recurring subscriptions, real-time messaging, and a complete admin dashboard.
• Shaped the product through three naming and brand iterations, culminating in Coconut Spaces, with a distinct market position and launch strategy focused on regional UK expansion.
• Established CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, error tracking via Sentry, and uptime monitoring, maintaining 99% uptime throughout the engagement with zero production outages.
• Delivered a regional SEO foundation with a position 4.7 average ranking and 32.6% click-through rate in Google Search Console at launch.
• Introduced a hybrid booking system supporting Instant Book, Request to Book, and Inquiry workflows, treating each space as an independent unit with its own calendar, inventory, and booking configuration.

Worked as a senior frontend engineer on React-based applications, contributing to UI architecture, component development, and delivery of modern web experiences.

Key achievements

• Built and maintained scalable React components and frontend systems.
• Collaborated closely with designers and developers to deliver polished user experiences.
• Contributed to frontend performance, maintainability, and development standards.

Supporting the technical direction and delivery of a fitness platform, helping guide architecture, product development, and long-term engineering strategy.

Key achievements

• Advised on platform scalability, frontend architecture, and development best practices.
• Provided technical leadership across product planning, implementation, and delivery.
• Supported modern React-based development workflows and engineering improvements.

Led UX/UI design and frontend development for an automotive platform, helping shape product direction, user experience, and implementation.

Key achievements

• Designed and developed core user-facing experiences across the platform.
• Worked across UX strategy, interface design, frontend implementation, and feature iteration.
• Collaborated directly with stakeholders to rapidly prototype and refine product functionality.

Progressed from Mid-weight UI Developer to Senior UI Developer while working across multiple sectors on large-scale frontend and JAMStack projects. Took on additional technical leadership, mentoring, and process improvement responsibilities within the UI team.

Key achievements

• Helped drive adoption of React and Next.js across the UI team.
• Mentored junior developers and work experience students in frontend development practices.
• Ran internal UI knowledge-sharing sessions covering tooling, workflows, and modern frontend concepts.
• Improved team collaboration and delivery processes across frontend projects.

Joined The Wedding Shop development team for approximately 9 months to support the continued improvement of their ReactJS-based ecommerce platform during a period of increased development demand.

Key achievements

• Developed new frontend features and user flows within a ReactJS ecommerce application.
• Maintained and improved legacy frontend systems while modernising parts of the platform.
• Worked on frontend performance improvements and UX refinements across customer-facing journeys.
• Collaborated within a small agile team of developers, product owners, and scrum management using two-week sprint cycles.
• Contributed to continuous platform improvements that received consistently positive stakeholder feedback during sprint reviews.

Worked as part of the frontend development team delivering Magento ecommerce and WordPress projects across multiple sectors. Responsibilities included frontend theming, client collaboration, deployments, and ongoing platform maintenance.

Key achievements

• Built and maintained frontend themes for Magento and WordPress websites.
• Worked with technologies including jQuery, LESS, PHP, and responsive frontend development techniques.
• Participated in deployment workflows and ongoing support for live client platforms.
• Communicated directly with clients through project collaboration and support tools.
• Contributed to projects including David Shuttle and 4x4-focused ecommerce platforms.
• Completed Magento 2 training and certification courses to support ecommerce development expertise.

Joined ecommerce agency Metakinetic as part of the design team, contributing to the design and frontend development of their internally built ecommerce platform across a wide range of client projects. During this period the company merged and became Red Hot Penny (RHP), expanding the scale and variety of projects delivered.

Key achievements

• Designed interfaces in Photoshop and developed responsive frontend implementations using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.
• Helped transition a major frontend base theme from desktop-only layouts to responsive mobile-first experiences during the rise of mobile web adoption.
• Worked across 20-30 ecommerce and digital projects spanning multiple industries and client requirements.
• Collaborated directly with clients alongside project managers during planning, feedback, and support discussions.
• Created HTML email campaigns, landing pages, and ecommerce themes for brands including Facebook, SanDisk, M&S, and Lowepro.
• Rebuilt and localised the Lowepro ecommerce experience into a multi-language frontend supporting international markets including French and German.
• Produced digital assets and ecommerce visual content for large retail and education-focused projects.

Participated in multi-month prerelease HDD/SSHD firmware and hardware validation programs for Western Digital, including telemetry benchmarking, firmware regression testing, comparative performance analysis, and structured issue reporting under NDA.

Worked as a contract frontend developer supporting a design-focused agency without an internal development team, converting visual designs into custom WordPress themes and frontend implementations.

Key achievements

• Developed custom WordPress themes using PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Translated static visual designs into responsive frontend experiences.
• Supported agency project delivery across multiple client websites.

Joined Kapang Digital shortly after university initially as a graphic designer, later expanding into frontend and interactive development responsibilities across the company’s web platforms and digital products.

Key achievements

• Designed logos, branding assets, and website visuals for multiple digital projects.
• Managed and maintained a WordPress multisite network powering over 30 local media and news streaming websites.
• Supported a franchise-style publishing platform where local operators could run regional news channels on shared infrastructure.
• Worked with frontend technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and early CSS animation techniques.
• Integrated live streaming URLs and custom media players into news and video-focused websites.
• Contributed to both frontend implementation and light backend/content management tasks within WordPress.
• Quickly transitioned from design-focused responsibilities into hybrid design and development work within a fast-moving small team environment.

Worked as a contract full stack developer during the early PHP/MySQL web era, contributing to both frontend and backend website development projects.

Key achievements

• Built and maintained WordPress-based websites and custom PHP functionality.
• Worked across both frontend implementation and backend development tasks.
• Developed database-driven functionality using PHP and MySQL.
• Supported project delivery across multiple web development requirements.