I am a developer with 18+ years experience in the industry, including agencies, client side and co-founding a web development company; which I have run for over 7 years. I am well versed at running projects from conception to completion, bringing in additional resources as and when needed as well as nurturing other developers. I enjoy building scalable and reusable modules for projects as to lessen the burden on future projects in both development time and need for unnecessary use of libraries. Experience within large entities such as Government, Pernod Ricard and News UK. My skillset includes: - Javascript (Vanilla, Vue, GSAP (Greensock), Node, Nuxt, GraphQL, Apollo, Pinia) - PHP (OOP, Namespace) - CMS (Wordpress, CraftCMS) - HTML/CSS/SASS/BEM - Build Tools (Grunt, Gulp, Webpack)…

Matthew Kirk

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I am a developer with 18+ years experience in the industry, including agencies, client side and co-founding a web development company; which I have run for over 7 years. I am well versed at running projects from conception to completion, bringing in additional resources as and when needed as well as nurturing other developers. I enjoy building scalable and reusable modules for projects as to lessen the burden on future projects in both development time and need for unnecessary use of libraries. Experience within large entities such as Government, Pernod Ricard and News UK. My skillset includes: - Javascript (Vanilla, Vue, GSAP (Greensock), Node, Nuxt, GraphQL, Apollo, Pinia) - PHP (OOP, Namespace) - CMS (Wordpress, CraftCMS) - HTML/CSS/SASS/BEM - Build Tools (Grunt, Gulp, Webpack)…

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I am a developer with 18+ years experience in the industry, including agencies, client side and co-founding a web development company; which I have run for over 7 years.

I am well versed at running projects from conception to completion, bringing in additional resources as and when needed as well as nurturing other developers.

I enjoy building scalable and reusable modules for projects as to lessen the burden on future projects in both development time and need for unnecessary use of libraries.

Experience within large entities such as Government, Pernod Ricard and News UK.

My skillset includes:

  • Javascript (Vanilla, Vue, GSAP (Greensock), Node, Nuxt, GraphQL, Apollo, Pinia)
  • PHP (OOP, Namespace)
  • CMS (Wordpress, CraftCMS)
  • HTML/CSS/SASS/BEM
  • Build Tools (Grunt, Gulp, Webpack)
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Skills

Experience Level

CSS
Expert
HTML5
Expert
JavaScript
Expert
WordPress
Expert
Vue.js
Expert
PHP
Expert
jQuery
Expert
Node.js
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Front End Developer (Freelance) at Various Agencies (London area)
July 1, 2016 - July 1, 2016
Freelanced across London-area agencies (including J W T, Ragged Edge, and M&C Saatchi), delivering front-end development across client projects. Built websites using Backbone, Marionette, RequireJS, Node, Grunt, and modern CSS preprocessors (SASS/LESS/Compass) with HTML5/CSS3 and jQuery. Collaborated with back-end developers to implement responsive, accessible interfaces and maintainable front-end architectures; created reusable components and modular systems to improve efficiency across projects.
Front End Developer at M&C Saatchi
November 1, 2014 - November 1, 2014
Involved in most front-end projects; utilized Backbone, Marionette, RequireJS, Node, Grunt, SASS, Compass, LESS, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery to build websites. Worked closely with back-end developers; contributed to front-end architecture and delivery across client work, ensuring performant, accessible experiences.

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services
    paper AAG IT

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    A large SEO focussed Wordpress website. A tricky build with a large custom menu build with many different types of blocks/patterns.

    AAG IT is a strategic IT company that enables other companies grow.

    paper Childwick Trust

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    [View Jim Joel Fund](https://www.twine.net/signin

    Childwick Trust is a Wordpress website that was built using 1 theme but across 2 independent websites; Childwick Trust and Jim Joel Fund. Each website shared all functionality but had completely different styling.

    Childwick Trust run applications windows twice a year for other charities to put themselves forward for funding.

    paper Taste Odyssey

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    Taste Odyssey is a Vue app built on top of headless Wordpress. The client needed the ability to manage their own brands and products.

    The use case for the project is that a passenger at an airport would visit the store and do a taste test of the products and is then able to mark down the taste notes of the things they tried. As they marked them down particles move and morph to show the change in decisions. Ultimately the scores show you how you compared to other people that tried the same products as you.