Ash Whiting
Lead Developer at Portable Interactive Limited
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAsh Whiting is a Lead Developer based in Brighton with a nearly 25-year career crafting engaging web experiences and over a decade of focused professional experience in full-stack and WordPress development. Currently leading engineering at BrightLocal, he blends hands-on frontend expertise with WordPress "voodoo"—turning complex CMS needs into robust, maintainable solutions. As director of his longstanding studio Portable Interactive, he’s delivered end-to-end digital work for global agencies and brands, often executing projects single-handedly from brief to launch. Comfortable mentoring teams and teaching design-to-code translation, he has a rare mix of fine-art training and deep technical chops that informs elegant, user-centered interfaces. Known for modern responsive techniques, bespoke JS solutions, and a pragmatic approach to legacy systems, he’s built a trusted roster of clients who rely on him for ongoing digital stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Fine Art, Fine Art at Winchester School of ArtGreater Brighton Metropolitan CollegeChrists HospitalA Level, A Level at Chichester College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (182)
vimeo10
youtube10
lightbox-gallery10
google-translate10
html5-video10
image-gallery10
video-gallery10
fizzbuzz10
css-animations10
lightbox10
thumbnails10
wordpress9
angular9
relevance9
lit-element9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
asha23/arlo-framework
Sep 2016 - Mar 2019
A Composer Framework to help you get WordPress up and running in around a minute
Contributions:13 releases, 56 commits, 153 pushes in 2 years 5 months
wordpressphpframeworkcomposerminute
asha23/wp-seed-timber
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
WordPress Timber/Twig seed theme using Bootstrap 3, Gulp and Bower. Also included are some pre-installed Advanced Custom Fields Pro flexible content modules
Contributions:10 releases, 19 commits, 86 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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