Chris Gibbons
Lead Front-End Engineer at Accessibility Manchester (@a11yMCR)
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Gibbons is a seasoned frontend engineering leader currently guiding Royal London's front-end strategy as Lead Front-End Engineer. He combines hands-on UI/UX craftsmanship with design systems, semantic markup, accessibility, and engineering leadership to ship scalable web experiences. As founder and co-organiser of Accessibility Manchester, he actively builds communities and drives inclusive design across organizations. His career spans leadership roles at Co-op, Auto Trader, Zuto, and Code Computerlove, where he led design systems, pattern libraries, and accessibility initiatives. He has championed progression frameworks, team topologies, and knowledge sharing, while expanding front-end practices and AWS-focused skills. Based in England, he brings a pragmatic, user-centered mindset and a track record of turning collaboration into reliable, accessible, high-performance front-end systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Web and Multimedia, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Web and Multimedia at University of Central Lancashire
Github Skills (27)
react8
gatsby7
gulp7
web-app7
graphql7
frontend6
fastest6
compiler5
jekyll5
static-site-generator5
netlify5
mono-repo5
css4
foundations4
mono3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gbbns/gbbns.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 127 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
gbbns/gatsby.gbbns.co
Jan 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 92 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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