Dan Cork
Contract Frontend Lead Architect at Kerv
Folkestone and Hythe District, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Cork is a contract Frontend Lead Architect with 13+ years of hands-on experience building scalable React and TypeScript applications and a track record of turning design systems from concept to company-wide adoption. He blends a UX design background with deep frontend architecture skills—shipping component libraries, web components, and performant UI at scale while ensuring accessibility and testability. Dan has led cross-functional teams, mentored engineers and designers, and driven measurable improvements such as 5x faster feature delivery through targeted refactors and testing infrastructure. His recent work spans greenfield clinical systems, performance-critical consumer apps, and enterprise design systems published via monorepos and private registries. Comfortable fullstack when needed, he pairs practical engineering (Vite, Node, Jest, Playwright) with Figma-driven design engineering to bridge product and implementation. Based in Folkestone, UK, he’s currently available for senior contract or permanent frontend and design-engineering roles from January 2026.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Higher Education, Arts and Humanities, Certificate of Higher Education, Arts and Humanities at The Open UniversityHarvey Grammar School, Folkestone
English, Italian, French
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Github Skills (90)
boilerplate10
fastify9
single-spa9
authentication9
sprint9
metalsmith9
titus9
nodejs9
postgresql8
react8
flatlist8
paths8
react-native-component8
minecraft7
server-migration7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dancork/dancork.github.io
May 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 165 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 1 month
holidayextras/react-ui-workshop
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 47 pushes, 1 tag in 7 months
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