Carl Wood
Senior Frontend Developer

cjwood17(at)gmail(dot)com

Conscientious and hard-working Senior Frontend Developer with 10 years' experience of building user interfaces


Career history

Bookwhen

Senior Frontend Developer, Jan 2021 - Present

  • Building new features in HTML, CSS, JS (ES6), and integrating with Ruby on Rails
  • Bug fixing
  • UI design using Figma
  • Wireframing using Balsamiq

Graphite Digital

Senior Frontend Developer, Jun 2018 - Nov 2020

  • Single Page Applications (prototypes) using ES6, React, Storybook, styled-components, Jest, Enzyme
  • Working closely with lead dev and designers to create CMS and marketing sites
  • HTML and CSS (Sass)
  • Accessibility evangelist
  • QA and accessibility testing
  • Performance testing and optimisation with lighthouse

Bright Interactive

UX Developer, Dec 2017 – Jun 2018

  • UX developer working on company product
  • HTML and CSS (Sass)
  • JavaScript: Angular
  • UX design

Shed Collective

Frontend Web Developer, Aug 2015 – Nov 2017

  • Frontend lead working as part of a small multi-disciplinary team
  • HTML, Sass, Javascript, jQuery, Knockout.js, Gulp, NPM, PHP
  • Integrating designs with in-house CMS
  • Writing blog posts on relevant tech for company Medium account

White October

Frontend Web Developer, Jun 2011 – Jul 2015

  • Client-facing frontend developer
  • Working closely with the design team to produce responsive websites and apps
  • HTML, CSS (preprocessors) and some Javascript, with a smattering of UX and design
  • Version control with Git to work on multi-developer projects
  • Leading client meetings to demo new features
  • Given presentations on CSS architecture, jQuery Mobile and front-end workflow tools
  • Mentoring work experience students

Education

BSc Web Design (1st)

Bristol UWE, 2008 - 2011

3 A-levels

East Devon College 2006 - 2008

  • English (A)
  • History (A)
  • Media Studies (B)

11 GCSEs (A* - C)

Fred Longworth High School 2001 - 2005

  • Maths (A*)
  • Science (A*)
  • English (A)
  • History (A)

Skillset

  • HTML5/CSS3
  • Sass
  • Javascript (ES6), TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue.js
  • Storybook
  • Git (CLI)
  • Webpack
  • jQuery

References available on request