Garrett Coakley
Senior Frontend Developer at Internet Society
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGarrett Coakley is a Senior Frontend Developer and technical lead based in Oxford with over two decades of experience building web projects for corporate, government, and non-profit clients. He blends hands-on front-end expertise in React, JavaScript, GraphQL and CMS platforms with backend skills in Django, Python and PHP, and a strong background in information architecture and UX. Garrett has led development teams for eight years, driving modern engineering practices, mentoring engineers, and modernising processes across product and marketing functions. His recent roles include Senior Frontend Developer at the Internet Society and engineering leadership at Elsevier, while running Spiked Design to consult for small organisations. Outside work he’s deeply embedded in open source and community management (former evolt.org admin and local Flickr group organiser), reflecting a passion for collaborative tooling and pragmatic problem solving. Dual UK/Irish citizenship and an original training in aerospace engineering hint at a systematic, engineering-minded approach to web problems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Coventry University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
pattern-lab8
flickr8
copying8
django8
django-project8
django-apps8
lastfm8
hdx8
django-blog8
twitter8
responsive-email8
atomic-design7
responsive7
pattern7
jekyll7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
digitaloxford/do-wagtail
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
Wagtail powered site for digitaloxford.com
Contributions:116 commits, 3 PRs, 152 pushes in 2 years 11 months
djangowagtail
garrettc/django-ditto
Feb 2022 - Aug 2024
A collection of Django apps for copying things from third-party sites and services.
Contributions:19 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 6 months
django-appspythonpartycopyingdjango
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