Catherine Mcdonough
Senior Frontend Developer at Pets at Home
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCatherine Mcdonough is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Manchester with over a decade of experience crafting user-focused web and mobile applications. She has progressed from UX/UI design into technical leadership roles, shipping React, React Native and Electron projects across agencies and product teams, and recently leads frontend work at Pets at Home. Catherine pairs hands-on development with mentoring—she’s tutored bootcamp cohorts and led diversity initiatives like Women AND Technology—demonstrating a focus on people as well as code. Her background includes building PIM systems, e-commerce platforms and award-winning SSR React sites, showing strength in both product-facing interfaces and engineering delivery. Notably, she blends occasional design work with technical leadership, making her comfortable straddling design, front-end architecture and team growth.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Geography BSc, Bachelor's Degree Geography BSc at The University of Sheffield
English, French
Github Skills (15)
react-hooks7
react7
higher-order-component7
forms6
react-native6
webpack-plugin6
plugin5
server4
reload3
webpack3
formik3
nodejs3
nodemon3
django1
wagtail1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
coffee4craig/coffee-4-craig-website
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:59 commits, 45 PRs, 223 pushes in 1 year 7 months
v9-team-portal/v9-team-portal.github.io
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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