Gareth Trufitt
Technical Lead, Web Experience at Nando's UK & IRE
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Trufitt is a Technical Lead in Web Experience based in London with 11 years of front-end and engineering leadership across Nando’s UK, The Guardian and AKQA. He has led teams responsible for high-traffic, mission-critical sites—most notably helping migrate theguardian.com to a React/Node rendering platform while prioritizing accessibility and “Make it fast, Keep it fast” performance goals for hundreds of millions of monthly readers. A hands-on front-end engineer by background, he contributes practical UI and UX improvements in open-source projects like the Guardian frontend repo, focusing on component interactions and real-world bug fixes. Gareth blends people leadership (managing teams up to a dozen engineers) with deep client-side craft, shipping robust editorial tools and CMS improvements. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of product, performance and accessibility, and brings a track record of turning large-scale editorial requirements into polished, fast web experiences.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Multimedia Technologies and Media (Television) Production, BA, Multimedia Technologies and Media (Television) Production at University of Chester
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
web-performance9
css9
react3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Sep 2015 - Jun 2021
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:87 reviews, 562 commits, 838 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gareth primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the `guardian/frontend` repository. Their contributions include adding features to the 404 page, reverting a change related to article aside MPU templates, and adjusting the styling for a special report, reflecting a focus on UI improvements and component interactions. Further development included the removal of page view and browser id to GA, as well as fixing a display bug. These changes indicate a focus on user experience and website functionality.
productionguardian
gtrufitt/priorityshoppinghours
Mar 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:95 commits, 4 PRs, 84 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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