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Senior frontend engineer · Design-led · Backend capable · Birmingham, UK
Senior software engineer with 10+ years building production web applications, focused on React and TypeScript at scale. Founding-team experience taking developer-tools products from MVP to flagship. I design maintainable, scalable frontend architecture and can own delivery end to end, from data layer to interface, using AI-assisted workflows to move quickly without sacrificing code quality. A prior decade in design and UX means I bridge product, design, and engineering rather than just consuming specs.
Senior Frontend Engineer
Diagrid
Founding-team engineer. Built Conductor, then built the Catalyst MVP and owned its frontend architecture as the team took it to flagship.
- Led the Catalyst frontend, including a complex workflow-execution visualiser handling thousands of nodes with real-time stats; a differentiating feature that directly attracted several customers.
- Built the automated testing suite and improved CI, cutting production bug reports by 60%.
- Contributed to the Dapr open-source JavaScript SDK (Workflows and the Conversation API); built quickstarts and sample workflows in Node.js and Python, and occasionally contributed to the Node.js backend.
- Shaped product design and UX for Catalyst.
- Built AI agents and reusable skills letting non-technical teammates safely ship marketing-site changes, reducing engineering requests by 50%.
- Improved First Contentful Paint by 76% on the marketing website.
Senior Frontend Engineer
Jetstack
- Led development and frontend architecture of the Jetstack Secure Platform.
- Rebuilt product documentation as a single Next.js + MDX application.
- Contributed to deployment pipelines and mentored 4 backend engineers into frontend work; supported design and marketing on the company site.
- Contributed to the Cert-Manager website.
Frontend Engineer
PurpleBricks
- Built Search, Listings, and a new refunds application across a high-traffic property platform.
- Increased the web application performance by 35%.
- Led the migration from Redux to React Query + Context across 3 micro-frontends.
- Contributed heavily to the design system; mentored 4 junior engineers.
Frontend Developer
Phoebus Software Ltd
- Owned the frontend of the web entry point for banking-sector clients.
- Built a configurable form builder with VueJS, TypeScript, and Webpack; improved application UX by reducing the time to complete a loan application by 38%.
Software Engineer / UI Designer
Freelance · part-time
Technical partner to founders and product teams: architecture, frontend builds, and product/UX, often as the sole engineer. Selected work:
- Rapticore (rapticore.com, 2019–2022): led a team of 4 frontend engineers for 3 years building a cybersecurity observability platform, owning frontend architecture and direction.
- Romanian Association of Medical Students: built an online mock-exam application end to end, including the backend, supporting up to 5,000 concurrent students per sitting with no drop in performance.
- iFootage Gear: built the e-commerce site and participated in marketing campaign planning and collateral creation. Increased sales by 18%.
- Mention Me: frontend and marketing builds serving UK retail brands (Debenhams, Radley, OVO Energy, Joseph Joseph, and others).
- Stard.io: built their marketing and web application frontend.
Lead Frontend Developer / Designer
iintegra / Workvine (Flex Recruitment spin-offs)
At Workvine I was part of the founding team, developed a series of its IP technologies, and led a team of 2 junior designers. At iintegra I implemented, rebuilt, and maintained their Applicant Tracking System (ATS) frontend and led its design direction and user experience.
BA (Hons) Creative Digital Media and Illustration
University of Worcester, UK
Final-year projects included a web application for teaching children Spanish and the UI design for a mobile game.
Math and Computer Science
Danube Lyceum, Romania