Ash Connolly
Software Engineer at Equal Experts
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAsh Connolly is a seasoned software engineer based in Sheffield with over a decade of experience crafting performant React and Next.js applications and design systems for clients like the BBC, WWF, Microsoft and HMRC. He specialises in TypeScript-led front ends, component libraries and living styleguides, and has a track record of leading greenfield projects, API design, and accessibility-first engineering at scale. Notable outcomes include architecting a lightweight, high-throughput login island that reduced code and payload dramatically, and building a multipage customs search app serving ~400 million records for 2,000 internal users. Comfortable across the stack with Node, serverless Lambdas and MongoDB, he also champions test reliability (Cypress → Playwright) and CI-driven accessibility. A regular writer and presenter, his articles and talks have been shared by industry leaders, reflecting a blend of hands-on craft and thoughtful communication.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Multimedia Design, Bachelor's degree Multimedia Design at The University of Huddersfield
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (120)
e2e-testing10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
proxy10
ember10
e2e10
isolation10
jsx10
hybrid10
markdown10
javascript10
mutable10
formatter10
browser10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AshConnolly/Site-Boilerplate-2016
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
AshConnolly/westontaylor
Jan 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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