Derek Henderson
Senior Front End Developer at First Three Things
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDerek Henderson is a Senior Front End Developer with 11 years of experience designing performant, accessible, and scalable web applications across fintech, telecoms, energy, retail, healthcare, and government. He combines deep standards-driven front-end expertise with a track record of measurable business impact—improving conversions, reducing churn, and automating core workflows at companies like Proton, HeidiPay, Centrica and Easons. A natural mentor and communicator, he raises team performance through code quality, UX advocacy, and practical guidance on accessibility and semantics. Derek is fluent in English and Spanish and brings a rare mix of creative problem-solving and data-informed engineering, having built dashboards and tools that make complex data actionable. He often modernises legacy codebases while preserving UX and compliance, and his background in music hints at a disciplined, pattern-aware approach to interface design.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
React Nanodegree Program, React Nanodegree Program at UdacityComputer Science, Computer Science at Boston University Metropolitan CollegeLinux/Unix System Administration Certificate Information Technology, Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate Information Technology at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Arts - BA Music, Bachelor of Arts - BA Music at Amherst CollegeHelix High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
9,548reputation
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241answers
27questions
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gmail
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jquery
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Github Skills (44)
jquery10
gmail10
html10
javascript9
css9
user-input9
readable8
ava7
highcharts6
react6
chai6
jsdom6
css-selectors6
browser6
timer6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dshenderson/udacity-redux-would-you-rather
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
"Would you rather?" app for Redux project in Udacity's React Nanodegree program.
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
reactnanodegreeudacityreact-nanodegreeredux
dshenderson/reactnd-project-myreads-starter
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Starter Code for the React MyReads Project
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
myreads-projectreactmyreadsreactjsstarter-code
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