Martin Burford

Introduction to me

I believe that Development is problem-solving first, coding second. To date, I've built in excess of 150 different websites over the past 25 years, and in that time I've worked in all manner of companies, ranging from media agencies, through to law firms, banks, SasS startups, publishing houses and many many more. Technically, there's not much that's come along that I haven't worked with. Things like data visualization, dynamic report generation, dashboards, widgets, mapping, heatmaps, live updating interfaces, animation libraries, component library builds, responsive web development, light and dark mode, multi-lingual sites, right-to-left rendering sites ... you name it, I've built it.

My most recent role

In my most recent role, I was hired by RiskBase to help setup and start the re-development of their Engage platform. I worked single handedly, creating a fully responsive Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind project. The UI was a complex data capture site, requiring extensive react-hook-form integration. Additionally, TanStack Query was used for all API data consumption and mutation logic. A large number of elements of the project were written as feature toggles, controllable by environment variables. Two examples of this were mock data (pre-population) techniques and React guard logic.

The core tech-stack (although there were MANY more elements to the project) were:

Below is an illustration of some of the technologies I'm using at the moment, along with a few of the other technologies I've used in the past. This list is constantly growing, as the front-end landscape continues to change and evolve from one year to the next.