Craig Buckler
Freelance Information Technology Consultant
East Devon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCraig Buckler is a seasoned freelance IT consultant and full‑stack web developer with over a decade of experience delivering high‑performance, accessible, and secure web systems for clients ranging from Microsoft and HMRC to Tezos and FT.com. He blends hands‑on front‑end craftsmanship in vanilla HTML5/CSS3/ES6 and Progressive Web Apps with backend expertise in Node.js/Deno, SQL/NoSQL, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare) to ship mission‑critical sites and services. Craig has a strong track record in performance optimisation, design systems and automated tooling—authoring books, video courses and 1,300+ tutorials for SitePoint while contributing notable open‑source work such as the progressive-image lazy‑loading component. His projects span government portals, university CMS builds, financial tools and AI-driven advertising infringement bots, showing a knack for turning complex enterprise requirements into pragmatic, maintainable solutions. Based in East Devon, he combines consultancy, mentoring and technical writing to help teams improve code quality, performance and developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Exmouth Community CollegeBEng Computer Systems Engineering, BEng Computer Systems Engineering at University of Warwick
English
Stackoverflow
275reputation
25kreached
13answers
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Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
image-optimization9
user-interface9
docker6
docker-compose6
shared-worker6
postgresql6
docker-for-windows6
canvas6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
craigbuckler/progressive-image.js
Jan 2017 - Oct 2021
A lazy-loading progressive image similar to those seen on Facebook and Medium.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 23 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Craig primarily contributed to the development of the front-end component, specifically for a progressive image loading effect. The commits show modifications to the HTML (demo.html) to showcase the implementation and various CSS and JavaScript improvements (progressive-image.js, progressive-image.min.js, demo.css) related to the functionality, including handling different image sources, implementing responsive images, and incorporating a fallback mechanism for errors. The contributions also included updates to documentation and demo examples, and the addition of features like CSS background images.
reactimagesimilarjavascriptprogressive-image-loading
craigbuckler/wstest
Aug 2019 - Mar 2024
web socket testing
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
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