Resume

I am a senior frontend developer with over 12 years experience in the industry, proficient in many different aspects of frontend development. I am passionate about producing code that is optimised in readability, efficiency and performance. I am an effective problem solver and excellent communicator. I am highly organised and have years of experience organising and designating work based on product requirements, often outside of my own department, helping to drive projects forward, whilst also contributing to the efficiency of the agile processes of the team.

See my work history and experience below or view my latest cv here.

Skills

JavaScript, Typescript, Node, React, Remix, Gatsby, Redux, Cloudflare workers, Elastic Search, Git, Docker, Tailwind CSS, SASS, CSS Modules.

Work experience

Rated People
Senior Front End Developer
Oct 2021 - Present
Lead front end developer on a Remix application / website. Optimising performance, accessibility and SEO.
Maintenance, feature tickets and tech migration on the tradespersons logged in area, an SPA using Create React App.
Writing web automation integration tests with Ruby and Capybara and owning the QA test and build / deployment release cycle for tickets.
Rated People
Front End Developer
Sept 2015 - Oct 2021
Having an integral role in tech migration from PHP and legacy client side applications to Node and React.
Utilising Elastic Search for fast data queries to build a directory of tradesmen.
Creating and maintaining a “rest-api” to communicate between Frontend and Backend written in Node JS.
Using tools and frameworks within the React ecosystem such as Gatsby, React Hooks, Redux, Webpack, CSS Modules.
Solid State Group
Front End Developer
Aug 2010 - Jul 2015
Working on a diverse range of projects with high profile clients such as Disney and heavily backed tech start ups.
Developing with content management systems including Wordpress.
Working with the first Javascript SPA frameworks such as Backbone.js, Angular and Meteor.

Recent Personal Projects

https://www.rossmatthewsdev.com - Personal website

2022

Technologies: Remix, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, Cloudflare Pages

http://www.seanlondonguide.com - Professional tourguide

2021

Technologies: PHP, SASS, Wordpress, using Advanced Custom Fields to build a custom CMS

Education

Birkbeck, University of London

2009 - 2011

Web Technology, Diploma

Canterbury Christchurch University College

2002 - 2005

Degree BA (Hons), Radio, Film and Television Studies, Grade 2:1