eddichen

A Frontend Engineer based in London, who is product minded and enjoys build great UI experiences.

Experience

November 2021 - August 2023

An on-demand apparel design and manufacturing SaaS. I was part of a cross functional team which built functionality for the customer facing tools.

Added a dynamic DPI checker to the editor UI, giving users instant feedback about the quality of their uploaded logo, which lead to an increase in directly printable logos on garments.
Allowed brands to increase the variety of logos that could be added to a garment through introducing categorisation of logos.
Added Corel Draw support to our Visualisation Tool, allowing garment designers to upload and visualise designs generated from Corel Draw.
Created a script to automate garment design generation to assist Customer Success in testing all possible options, speeding up QA of products.
Helped track performance issues by triggering SpeedCurve tests to run on each deploy to production.
Contributed to the engineering blog by writing an article on How I started writing better commits.

January 2016 - November 2021

A Digital Agency specialising in e-commerce, content and customer experience.

Used technologies Calendly, Rocket Chat and Twilio to build an MVP platform in React to allow sales teams to capture, arrange and provide virtual demos of physical products to potential customers.
Built and launched a minimal marketable product site for a office space company TOG, using Drupal, React and GraphQL to aid prospective customers discover office locations. Introduced BackstopJS to aid visual regression testing.
Technical Lead on building an online learning platform using Drupal and Opigno, allowing courses to be taken online when it suits the learner and at their own pace.
Frontend lead on building the UI for FT Advisor and Investors Chronicle incorporating the Financial Times component library and providing a responsive UI.
Team lead on a hybrid mobile app project using Ionic allowing contract nurses to easily find work near them.
Earned certification as Adobe Certified Expert-Adobe Commerce Front-End Developer.
Line managed 3 Frontend Engineers, helping their progression from mid level to senior.

February 2010 - January 2016

Digital e-commerce agency specialising in the implementation of Magento e-commerce stores.

Frontend lead on Session Digital’s first responsive Magento e-commerce store for Smythson in 2012.
Delivered a workshop to frontend developers on how to get started building custom themes for Magento, Magento for Frontend Developers.
Earned certification as Magento Frontend Developer.
Worked on e-commerce stores for brands such as Acne Studios, Victoria Beckham, Atelier Swarovski, Kurt Geiger, Dreams Beds, Warner Music