Hello

I make websites

About me

Hi, I'm Tom, I have around 9 years development experience. My developer journey started as a hobby and I'm now lucky enough to be getting paid for it! I currently work on builds and maintenance for a broad range of clients.

I started coding professionally in 2017 at Element 78 as a Frontend Developer, improving the skills I'd been teaching myself whilst coding as a hobby. I love taking the Design and UX Team's ideas to create solutions that make our clients shine.

Whilst on the Frontend Team, I became more and more involved in the Javascript side of FE development and have grown a real passion for the more programatic side of coding. In 2021 I switched to the Backend Team where I have been developing my skills in C#, .Net and creating great Content Editor experiences with Umbraco CMS.

Skills

Some of the technologies I have experience working with.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SASS
  • Less
  • Tailwind
  • Javascript
  • Typescript
  • Angular
  • JQuery
  • Vue
  • C#
  • .Net
  • .Net Core
  • Umbraco
  • UCommerce
  • MSSQL
  • Firebase
  • Azure Dev Ops
  • Git
  • Gulp
  • Webpack
  • NPM
  • Yarn
  • Nuget

About this site

I built my previous site back when I was still trying to get my first professional role and it was long overdue a refresh! This page is just a static placeholder while I work on the main build.

For my rebuild, I've been wanting to experiment with creating an Umbraco back end with an Angular front end for a while. While this will be complete overkill for what I need, it's fun to play. Check out the code for this site or the progress on the new build on git hub.

Also, incase it wasn't obvious, I'm a big fan of The Bauhaus and De Stijl movements.