Alex Kilgour
Engineering Manager at springernature
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAlex Kilgour is an Engineering Manager and Principal Frontend Developer based in London with 14 years of experience building user-focused web applications. He blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship with team leadership, shipping accessible, well-tested interfaces and mentoring engineers to raise delivery quality. His open-source contributions include meaningful accessibility and UX improvements to the widely used Pa11y Dashboard, demonstrating a practical commitment to keyboard accessibility, lint hygiene, and polished visual components. Alex is comfortable translating product requirements into usable UI patterns and scalable front-end practices, and he brings a pragmatic eye for developer experience alongside customer-facing usability.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
accessibility10
uid10
javascript10
dashboard10
ax10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
css9
html7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pa11y/pa11y-dashboard
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Pa11y Dashboard is a web interface which helps you monitor the accessibility of your websites
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 9 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end of the Pa11y Dashboard, focusing on improving accessibility and user interface enhancements. Their work included adding keyboard accessibility features for filtering, ensuring better navigation. The user also addressed and fixed linting errors within the JavaScript code and refined the date selector, and graph styling. These changes reflect a focus on usability and a dedication to improving the overall user experience and accessibility.
accessibilitypa11ya11ydashboardmongo
springernature/frontend-toolkit-utilities
Aug 2018 - Apr 2025
Utilities and helpers for the front-end component toolkits
Contributions:8 reviews, 89 PRs, 205 pushes in 6 years 9 months
frontend
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