Ashley Firth
Global Director Of Engineering at W3C
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAshley Firth is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience who built and now heads the Global Engineering organization at Octopus Energy, scaling teams, products, and international delivery since the company’s early days. She combines hands-on front-end expertise with cross-disciplinary management across product, design, mobile and data visualisation to drive customer-facing sites, internal tools and ambitious campaigns that support renewable energy adoption. A pragmatic builder of low-turnover, distributed teams, she’s navigated growth through Octopus’s rise to unicorn status and continues to shape global engineering strategy. Outside the company, Ashley is an invited W3C expert on accessibility and the author of two books, bringing an uncommon depth in inclusive web design into corporate engineering practices. She also consults on accessibility and management, translating standards work into practical improvements for real users. Based in London, she blends agency-honed delivery experience with mission-driven product leadership focused on climate impact and equitable digital access.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons. Interactive Media Production, BA Hons. Interactive Media Production at Bournemouth University
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Github Skills (60)
styles10
axe10
conventions10
wcag10
materialize10
accessibility9
css9
lint9
user-experience9
linting8
css-variables8
effort8
postcss8
mixins8
npm8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MrFirthy/MrFirthy
Jul 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
MrFirthy/mrfirthy.github.io
May 2015 - Feb 2025
The source code for my personal site, built using Jekyll/Ruby so content can be written in markdown, and hosted through Github pages.
Contributions:15 PRs, 165 pushes, 8 branches in 9 years 11 months
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