Gavin Orland
Lead Front-End Engineer (React) at UK Home Office
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavin Orland is a Lead Front-End Engineer specialising in React with two decades of experience delivering secure, mission-critical systems for government, finance and enterprise clients. He excels at rescuing troubled projects—stabilising codebases, raising technical standards and restoring reliable delivery—while also setting front-end architecture, security and release practices. Comfortable in high-security environments, he’s recently led Border Force and Home Office applications and contributed pragmatic fixes to popular open-source formio.js to improve form component reliability. A former Adobe Certified Instructor who’s trained hundreds, he combines hands-on TypeScript/React expertise with a knack for mentoring distributed teams and making AI-assisted code reviews production-ready.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind, Formal Logic, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind, Formal Logic at Durham UniversityBTEC Higher National Diploma, Advertising Copywriting & Graphic Design, BTEC Higher National Diploma, Advertising Copywriting & Graphic Design at West Thames College
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Github Skills (7)
js10
javascript10
vanilla-javascript10
forms10
react7
angular5
vue5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
formio/formio.js
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
JavaScript powered Forms with JSON Form Builder
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily focused on improving the functionality of form components within the `formio.js` repository. They addressed issues related to the handling of select component choices, ensuring that added values are correctly incorporated without unexpected replacements. Furthermore, the user made several changes to the component validation logic, modifying its behavior based on component states such as disabled and read-only. These changes suggest a focus on ensuring correct form behavior and data integrity.
reactform-schemaform-builderjavascriptvanillajs
UKHomeOffice/cop-private-workflow-tasklist
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:19 reviews, 257 commits, 200 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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