Chris Watts
Senior Software Engineer at Calrec Audio Ltd
Bradford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarChris Watts is a Senior Software Engineer and UI/UX designer based in Bradford with 11 years of experience building thoughtful web interfaces and user-centered products. Currently at Calrec Audio, he combines front-end craftsmanship with pragmatic engineering to deliver polished, usable experiences for human users. His open-source contributions include significant front-end work on the ustwo.com-frontend—refactoring components, integrating a WordPress API for events, and improving UX flows like "load more" and event navigation. Comfortable working across pixels and systems, he focuses on reducing friction (for example, preventing page reloads through naming and architecture choices) while maintaining clean, maintainable code. Colleagues describe him as a practical designer-developer who bridges visual detail and engineering rigor.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
responsive-design9
validation6
google-maps-api6
jquery6
react-native6
domain-name6
regex6
google-maps6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ustwo/ustwo.com-frontend
Feb 2016 - May 2017
The New & Improved ustwo Website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:122 commits, 1 PR, 56 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on implementing and refactoring front-end components for the ustwo.com-frontend website. Key contributions include building a new events hub, preventing page reloads by adhering to naming conventions, and integrating Wordpress API for event details. Further work included adding a subheading to the hero section, moving studio filter components, and improvements to the events page, including adding a load more button and previous talkies section.
improved
chriswatts91/sample-serverless-ci-setup
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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