Andy Howell
Tech Lead at Atomic Horse
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Howell is a seasoned front-end tech lead with 14 years’ experience building performant, accessible web and hybrid applications from Brighton. He currently leads front-end efforts at Virgin Atlantic, shipping Next.js and React solutions for booking flows, seat maps and checkout while starting a company component library in Storybook. Andy has a track record of transforming slow, bloated front-ends into high‑profit, server‑rendered React/Handlebars experiences and mentors teams in modern tooling, testing and performance practices. He also runs a small web consultancy, bringing practical agency and product experience to enterprise projects. Known for pragmatic UX collaboration and strong accessibility focus, he blends hands‑on coding with architectural leadership to move complex travel platforms forward.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Brighton
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
13,787reputation
2.8mreached
265answers
27questions
html
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php
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drupal
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outlook
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css
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viewport
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Github Skills (72)
javascript10
html10
angular10
typescript10
viewport10
nodejs10
drupal10
css10
outlook9
web-performance9
e-mail9
php9
react9
web-framework9
swipe-gestures9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
virginatlanticdevelopment/back-end-test
Jul 2018 - Jul 2022
Data and docs to support the airport application
Contributions:4 comments in 4 years
open-datadataairport
spacebeers/atomic-horse-astro
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 PRs, 138 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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