Alex Tompkins
Frontend Developer at Adyen
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Tompkins is a frontend developer with 10 years of experience building accessible, user-focused web experiences and improving developer workflows. Currently at Adyen, he brings deep expertise in React and Vue, component-driven design with Storybook/Chromatic, and pragmatic UX leadership demonstrated by creating an atomic design system and mentoring junior engineers. He has a strong track record of speeding up developer feedback loops—most notably cutting front-end build times from minutes to seconds—and modernizing legacy stacks with TypeScript and GraphQL frontends on .NET backends. Based in Amsterdam and academically trained with first-class honours in software engineering, Alex blends hands-on mobile and web engineering with a passion for discoverability and testable, standards-driven interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (53)
css9
minifier9
esbuild-plugin9
tabletop9
react9
tsx8
jsx8
commonjs8
bundler8
typescript8
vite8
javascript8
testing8
artifact8
preact7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alextompkins/esbuild-plugin-jsximportsource
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
An esbuild plugin that allows use of the `@jsxImportSource` pragma.
Contributions:4 reviews, 39 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
esbuild-pluginesbuildjsx
alextompkins/hotpotato
May 2019 - Jun 2019
An open-source hot potato game for Android devices.
Contributions:73 commits, 1 branch in 1 month
android
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