Adrian Stainforth
Principal Engineer - Web at Reach plc
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrian Stainforth is a Principal Engineer specialising in front-end architecture with over 20 years' experience delivering high-performance, accessible web and mobile experiences from large CMS platforms to consumer-facing PWAs. Based in London, he pairs deep JavaScript expertise—including vanilla JS, React, React Native and tooling like Webpack/Babel—with practical Node-based build tooling and several self-published npm modules that streamline developer workflows. He has led and scaled teams, made cross-team architectural decisions (notably migrating publication sites to Next.js), and runs hiring, mentoring and technical training. Equally comfortable with OOP and functional patterns, Adrian champions test-driven development (Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, RSpec) and pragmatic performance/caching strategies such as IndexedDB for high-volume sites. Not obvious from his title: his early career in Flash and interaction design informs a long-standing focus on UX, accessibility and developer ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA(Hons) Media Production, BA(Hons) Media Production at University of Lincoln
Github Skills (153)
mvc10
textarea10
imagemin10
ruby10
html10
rails10
sprockets10
buffer10
browser9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
minify9
editors9
react9
integrate9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
djforth/gmaps_helper
Feb 2016 - Feb 2020
Google Maps Helper
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
googlemapsgoogle-maps-apigooglemarkersgoogle-maps
djforth/jest-matchers
Feb 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 5 months
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