Twenty years, give or take

Selected work

20+ years in the murky waters between design and engineering. Started out writing semantic HTML at agencies, ended up running front-end practices. Accessibility and design systems the whole way.

1. Royal London · Technical Specialist (Web Development)

   Aug 2026 – Present · Digital Engineering

   Setting front-end standards across Digital, advising teams and coaching engineers.

2. Royal London · Lead Front-End Design Engineer

   Jun 2024 – Aug 2026 · Design system

   Token strategy, design-to-code pipeline, accessibility as a quality baseline.

   Case study: Royal London Design System

3. AND Digital · Tech Principal – Front-End

   2023 – 2024 · Consultancy

   Raising front-end standards across client teams.

4. cinch · Engineering Practice Lead

   2021 – 2023 · Engineering practice

   Front-end standards across engineering, and getting them adopted.

5. Co-op · Lead Front-End Design Engineer

   2020 – 2021 · Design system

   Lead engineer on the design system. Shared components, contribution models.

6. Auto Trader · Principal UX/UI Developer

   2016 – 2020 · Accessibility

   Pushing accessibility and inclusive design across a big platform.

7. Zuto · UI Engineer

   2015 – 2016 · UI engineering

   Sitting between front-end and UX at a car finance company.

8. Code Computerlove · Senior Front-End Developer

   2007 – 2015 · Agency

   Eight years learning HTML, CSS and web standards properly.

The full history is on LinkedIn. How I like to work is on the About page.