Founder & Full Stack Engineer at Crust Central

Independently designed and built a progressive web application end-to-end: concept, architecture, development and deployment. Produced structured technical implementations including architecture, data models and system boundaries, translating product vision into clean engineering. Evaluated and integrated optimal technologies and third-party services by analyzing performance, scalability, cost efficiency and developer experience trade-offs. Used agentic and context-engineering driven workflows to accelerate feature delivery while maintaining system quality and consistency. Built a scalable full stack system including React/Next.js with streaming SSR/RSCs, relational PostgreSQL + PostGIS schema for geospatial querying, a secure API layer with JWT auth, row-level security and rate limiting, OAuth and role-based access control, local-first caching with indexedDB (Dexie) and background revalidation, and hardware-accelerated map rendering via WebGL (MapLibre/Deck.GL). Optimized media delive

Career break for travel and extended family care and estate executor duties. Additional web development and freelance work were performed outside the core tech industry.

Senior Front End Engineer at Shelter

Replatformed Shelter’s website as part of an Agile cross-functional team, delivering significant performance and accessibility improvements to 7 million annual visitors. Championed accessibility compliance, including introducing team accessibility guidelines and automated accessibility testing tooling. Contributed to technical discussions, analyzed team processes and supported testing. Worked with Jest/Vitest, Playwright/Cypress, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CDNs and Edge Functions, and relevant UX/SEO/performance and responsive UI practices.

Associate Web Engineer at ASOS

Collaborated within a fast-paced, scaled-up environment as part of an Agile cross-functional team to replatform the ASOS website, implementing scalable micro-frontend architecture to deliver performance and scalability improvements for 20 million active users. Worked closely with UX and design teams using data-driven insights to deliver polished, user-centric UI features. Followed TDD practices to deliver clean, modular, unit-tested code and maintained codebase maintainability through regular code reviews and documentation. Actively contributed to Agile ceremonies and technical discussions by analyzing team processes and refining stories and acceptance criteria. Mentored junior team members through regular pair-programming sessions, contributing to junior developers being promoted.

Consultant Front End Engineer at BAE Systems

Delivered front-end expertise across multiple external client projects, including greenfield web applications for Vodafone and the Royal Navy, and legacy codebase maintenance and improvements for Three Mobile and the UK Home Office. Communicated clearly with non-technical stakeholders by explaining complex concepts and translating client needs into technical specifications. Took end-to-end ownership of a data visualization project, including comprehensive documentation and stakeholder training to enable rollout across 20 international markets.

Front End Engineer at First Utility

Worked in an Agile cross-functional team to rebuild the First Utility website following a redesign, improving usability and cross-device compatibility for users, and winning the 2014 Utilites Website of the Year award. Converted wireframes into fully responsive webpages and took ownership of data visualization projects.

Junior Front End Engineer at MyDeco

Delivered clean, modular front-end implementations in a fast-paced startup environment.