Martin Burford
Front-End Developer
Lead React Developer
Alex Howard Group
- July 2024 - September 2024
- London, UK
Role overview
- Alex Howard were wanting to bring the development of their suite of websites in-house, having out-sourced the work for the past few years.
- The long-term wishes of the business were to have permanent team members to work on this.
- I however had a past working relationship with one of the members of the leadership team, and was asked to build the foundations of a project re-platform whilst the permanent hires were sourced.
- I therefore spent 3 full months (albeit on a part-time basis) working on building a completely new front-end design system, with extensive documentation for the (yet to be hired) team members.
- As part of this work, a comprehensive mechanism was built to support light and dark modes across all sites in the Alex Howard group.
Technologies used
Code samples
Examples of code are available to view for this role. All code provided was 100% written by myself with no other Developers involved.
Recommendations
Danny BullChief Technical Officer
Martin is one of those rare developers who know and love their craft and is very, very good at it. He built us a front-end framework (from scratch) that is truly mobile friendly, incredibly performant, adaptable, and which will take us in to the next stages of our growth and beyond. One of the best developers I’ve worked with in 25 years. He also happens to be easy to work with and can lead a team with grace and ease. If you get a chance to hire Martin, you should hire Martin.