David Wickins
Lead Web Developer at Nottingham Trent University
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Wickins is a Lead Web Developer with 12 years of professional experience designing and building accessible, user-focused web interfaces for higher education and public platforms. Based in Leicester, he combines deep front-end skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SASS) and UI design sensibility with practical experience across CMSs like Plone and Sitecore, digital signage systems, and tooling such as Figma, Bitbucket and Node-based build chains. He has led web teams at Nottingham Trent University after a long tenure at the University of Leicester, where he blended design, photography and prototyping with accessibility, SEO and rigorous cross-device testing. Known for turning visual design into robust, maintainable front-end code, he also creates acceptance criteria and UAT scripts—bridging design, QA and stakeholder needs. An early adopter of responsive frameworks and digital signage workflows, he brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach to improving campus digital experiences.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Communicaton, Graphic Communications, Graphic Communicaton, Graphic Communications at The University of NorthamptonDenbigh School
Github Skills (70)
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dbus9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
liamw9534/pyconnman
Jun 2014 - Nov 2019
A library for managing network connectivity using Python, ConnMan and DBus
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 7 commits in 5 years 5 months
connectivitynetmikopythonospfnetworking
arribada/CLS-Argos-Linkit-CORE
Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
CLS Argos Linkit CORE firmware & hardware
Contributions:3 reviews, 26 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
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