David Plunkett
Tech Director at Footbao
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Plunkett is a seasoned technical director and creative technologist based in London, with nearly two decades of commercial experience and 14 years in senior engineering and leadership roles. He has led multidisciplinary teams across agencies and enterprise clients—driving product strategy, architecture and delivery for projects ranging from Google digital programmes and award-winning voice apps to high-traffic content platforms and interactive gaming experiences. Equally comfortable shipping front-end excellence (React/Angular/SCSS) and prototyping novel tech (WebAssembly, gRPC, Unity), he has a track record of turning POCs into long‑running client engagements and measurable user growth. At Beyond he helped scale the organisation globally and repeatedly won recognition for outstanding impact; more recently he’s held Tech Director roles delivering cross‑region engineering leadership. Known for blending creative design sensibilities with rigorous engineering standards, he often surfaces pragmatic product ideas that emerge from rapid experimentation.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
2.1 BSc (Hons) Multimedia Computing, 2.1 BSc (Hons) Multimedia Computing at De Montfort University
Github Skills (200)
testing10
javascript10
angular10
bootstrap10
chartjs10
react-swiper10
npm-scripts9
animation9
gulp9
systemjs9
directive9
html9
gesture9
react-carousel9
react-native-swiper9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Quirksmode/boilerplate-react-webpack-postcss
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Quirksmode/quirksmode-v3-ui
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 7 branches, 2 tags in 1 month
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