Darren Lester
Developer at LMR Partners
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDarren Lester is a Front End Engineering Manager based in Dundee with over 10 years of experience building high-performance React and TypeScript applications. He blends hands-on engineering—improving Core Web Vitals, migrating marketing sites to Next.js, and cutting render times by up to 80%—with people leadership, hiring and mentoring across distributed teams. His background spans consumer-facing growth work (SEO, A/B testing, landing pages) and mission-driven systems for space research, reflecting a rare mix of product-driven frontend craft and scientific software engineering. Known for owning frontend testing practices, accessibility and performance optimization, he also brings practical DevOps and systems experience from university satellite and planetary projects.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Applied Computing, Master of Science (MSc), Applied Computing at University of Dundee
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (11)
chrome10
chrome-extension10
docusaurus8
jsdom8
testing8
react7
testing-library7
react-testing-library6
kana5
vscode-extension1
git-commit1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
darren-lester/darren-lester.github.io
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:314 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
darren-lester/furigana-toggle
May 2017 - Dec 2018
Chrome and Firefox extension for toggling furigana on and off.
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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