Chris Rhymes
Web Developer at West Northamptonshire Council
Brackley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Rhymes is a seasoned web developer with 11 years’ experience building user-focused digital products, currently specialising in Laravel, TypeScript and React at West Northamptonshire Council. He brings full‑stack fluency in JavaScript and PHP, a history of senior systems work at Network Rail, and hands-on front-end craftsmanship from roles at Dragon2000 and Howdens. Chris contributes to open source—creating and refining Jekyll themes such as a Bulma-based clean theme where he improved responsive layouts, documentation and UX. He pairs practical engineering with a maker mindset, having self-published a cozy mystery series on Kindle alongside his day job. Known for learning by doing, he bridges product needs and polished interfaces while keeping dependencies and projects current. Based in Brackley, UK, he blends municipal and enterprise experience with a keen interest in continuous improvement and readable design.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Business Information Management, Management Information Systems, General, 2:2, BSc (Hons) Business Information Management, Management Information Systems, General, 2:2 at Canterbury Christ Church University
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Github Skills (9)
bulma10
jekyll10
javascript9
html9
css8
jekyll-theme8
alpinejs8
git6
fork6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
chrisrhymes/bulma-clean-theme
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
A clean and modern Jekyll theme based on Bulma
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 10 reviews, 20 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and making the theme more user-friendly. They made changes to the layout of the pages, particularly the sidebar, adjusting its display on different screen sizes. The commits also reflect efforts to revamp the documentation, add features like blog post series, and fix an image modal. Additionally, the user updated dependencies and addressed merge conflicts to keep the project current.
bulma-clean-themebulmacleanjekyll-themesjekyll
chrisrhymes/mere-blog-theme
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Mere is a minimal and simple blog theme, and nothing more, for use with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
Contributions:3 releases, 21 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 5 months
jekylljekyll-themenothingsimple-blogjekyll-blog
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