David Scourfield
Lead Principal Frontend Engineer at Backbase
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Scourfield is a Lead Principal Frontend Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently shaping frontend architecture and delivery at Backbase from his base in Cardiff. He brings deep expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript, Angular, NgRx, RxJS and Node.js, and pairs frontend craftsmanship with cloud-native patterns using AWS CDK, Lambda and DynamoDB. A seasoned monorepo practitioner, he leverages Nx to scale codebases and teams while keeping "beautiful code" a priority. Having programmed since age eight and holding a First Class BSc in Computer Science from Cardiff University, he combines long-standing hands-on curiosity with senior technical leadership. Outside work he’s equally focused on the finer things—real ale and red wine—reflecting a taste for nuance that shows up in his engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, First Class with Honours, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, First Class with Honours at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
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Github Skills (200)
dynamic-forms10
twitter-bootstrap10
buttons10
storybook10
multiselect10
api-client10
maven-plugin10
donut10
swagger10
right-to-left10
modals10
web-performance10
stylus10
font-size10
svg10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Backbase/angular-devkit
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 15 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 5 months
daiscog/ngx-http-request-state
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:19 releases, 6 reviews, 51 commits in 1 year 7 months
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