Ashley Hitchcock
Head Of Frontend Development at Artificial Colours
Dover, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAshley Hitchcock is a pragmatic front-end leader with two decades of development experience and 13 years in progressive hands-on and management roles, currently heading Frontend Development at Fresh Egg. She leads a team that builds blazing-fast, accessible, SEO-friendly, high-converting sites and design systems, specialising in headless and composable architectures for scalable digital experiences. Known for exacting standards on code quality and performance, she bridges design, SEO, and insight teams while securing strategic technical partnerships to drive innovation. Her background ranges from freelance agency work to running front-end teams at an established digital marketing agency, giving her both client-facing pragmatism and technical depth. A self-described "Slinger of Divs" who still hates !important and survived IE6, she blends old-school front-end craftsmanship with modern architecture and team leadership.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
HND Multimedia, HND Multimedia at University of Brighton
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (96)
cms10
starter-kit10
metadata10
security10
backend10
opengraph10
javascript10
seo10
wordpress10
payload10
compiler10
gatsby10
static-site-generator10
full-stack10
jamstack10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ashhitch/vs-code-css-comments
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
Visual Studio Code Snippets for CSS comments
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
cssvisual-studio-code
ashhitch/gatsby-plugin-wpgraphql-seo
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Gatsby Plugin to Bring Yoast Seo Data into Gatsby via WpGraphQL.
Contributions:4 releases, 69 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 3 months
gatsby-plugingatsbyjsseowpgraphqlyoast
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