Charlie Frater
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (E5) at Ocado Technology
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Frater is a Senior Staff Frontend Engineer with nearly two decades of front-end experience and a decade in professional roles, currently leading design system and developer-experience efforts at Ocado Technology. He designs and maintains high-impact B2B design systems (Hexagon.js and its successor) and builds tooling that drives consistency, localisation, documentation, and significant CI cost and time savings. Comfortable across the full JavaScript stack—React, Node.js, StencilJS, Express—he also applies automation and data pipelines (BigQuery) to surface support and dependency metrics. Charlie experiments with AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Codex) and even explores custom LLMs on consumer GPUs to automate home ecosystems, showing a practical curiosity beyond standard frontend work. He pairs rapid language learning with a builder mindset, evidenced by large-scale side projects like a Discord casino bot used by hundreds of thousands of players and production-grade dashboards and PWAs.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A, B, C, Maths, Design Tech, IT, A, B, C, Maths, Design Tech, IT at A-Levels
Github Skills (92)
modular10
neumorphism10
discord10
web-components10
jstree10
discord-bot10
discord-js9
javascript9
react-component9
ionic9
stencil-components9
notification9
testing9
parser9
webpack9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ocadotechnology/hexagonjs
Nov 2015 - Sep 2022
A modular, themable collection of components for modern browsers
Contributions:1172 commits, 273 PRs, 658 pushes in 6 years 10 months
neumorphismweb-componentsbrowsersjstreewebcomponents
ocadotechnology/hexagonjs-site
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 55 PRs, 155 pushes in 5 months
javascript
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