Chris Boakes
Principal Software Engineer at Alto Software
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Boakes is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience delivering high-traffic, performance-first front-end applications from national news sites to commerce and hospitality platforms. Based in Brighton, he has led major web performance initiatives—improving Core Web Vitals at The Telegraph, speaking at Google Web Day, and contributing to web.dev—while shaping front-end standards, design systems, and testing strategies. He’s adept at modern stacks and architectures, including micro-frontends, module federation, React/TypeScript, GraphQL and Playwright, and has applied similar practices to mobile-focused, transaction-heavy products. Known for balancing user experience, accessibility and engineering rigor, he thrives on making interfaces feel fast across devices and networks. Beyond day-to-day delivery he mentors teams, defines coding standards, and introduces scalable patterns that reduce long-term maintenance. A pragmatic problem-solver, he pairs hands-on implementation with strategic design-system and performance leadership.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Interactive Media Production, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Interactive Media Production at Bournemouth University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
e2e-testing10
puppeteer10
javascript10
selenium10
testing10
chromium10
firefox10
api10
chrome10
playwright10
test-automation10
webkit9
webdriver9
electron9
browser-automation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
telegraph/front-end-exercise
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
The Telegraph front-end candidate test for contractors
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
candidatetestingcontractorstelegraphfront-end
chrisboakes/postcss-encode-background-svgs
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
PostCSS plugin to encode background svgs
Contributions:4 releases, 39 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 9 months
csspostcssencodepostcss-pluginpostcss-plugins
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