Carl Hamilton
Principal Front End Developer at Autotrader
Runcorn, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCarl Hamilton is a Principal Front End Developer with 11 years' experience designing and delivering scalable, high-traffic web applications across e-commerce and consumer platforms. He combines hands-on engineering—modern React/TypeScript, Vite, Playwright, GraphQL—with platform-level thinking, driving migrations from legacy monoliths into resilient SPAs and native app services. At Auto Trader he shapes cross-team technical strategy while owning reliability, mentoring engineers, and introducing newer toolchains to improve velocity and test coverage. Previously he led front-end teams at Catch and The Hut Group, delivering feature-flagged, internationalised systems and measurable performance gains for millions of users. Comfortable balancing leadership and code, he has a knack for turning complex, multi-service journeys (like Deal Builder) into maintainable, user-focused experiences.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels A2 Media Studies (B) A2 Film Studies (B) A2 Computing (C) AS Music Technology (C), A Levels A2 Media Studies (B) A2 Film Studies (B) A2 Computing (C) AS Music Technology (C) at Runcorn Sixth Form CollegeBachelor’s Degree BSc Media Production and Technology, Bachelor’s Degree BSc Media Production and Technology at University of LancashireHigh School 10 GCSE’s including: IT (BB) English (BB) Maths (C) Science (CC), High School 10 GCSE’s including: IT (BB) English (BB) Maths (C) Science (CC) at Frodsham Science and Technology College
English
Github Skills (56)
markdown10
styles10
sugarss10
css10
sass10
postcss10
eslint10
browser10
smacss10
lint10
conventions10
linting10
linter10
stylelint10
nextjs9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cahamilton/furphy
Nov 2020 - Mar 2023
Monorepo for packages and refreshingly good tooling
Contributions:32 releases, 6 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 years 4 months
monorepotypescriptlernatooling
cahamilton/stylelint-config-property-sort-order-smacss
Jan 2017 - Aug 2022
Stylelint config for Property Sort Ordering based on the SMACSS methodology
Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 127 commits in 5 years 8 months
lintenforce-conventionsproperty-sortmethodologypostcss
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