Gethin Webster
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolGethin Webster is a software development engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building modular, idiomatic JavaScript and scalable front-end systems. Currently at Amazon Web Services, he blends hands-on component-level work—improving accessibility, focus management and documentation in notable UI libraries like Cloudscape Design—with technical leadership shaped by prior roles as Lead Architect and Mobile Development Manager. He excels at turning stakeholder vision into robust architectures, instituting coding standards, CI practices and testing to minimize technical debt and unpredictable releases. Comfortable across mobile and web stacks (React, React Native, Ember, Node) and cloud platforms, he repeatedly focuses on UX, configurability and reusability. Colleagues rely on him to both mentor teams and dig into production issues, bringing a musician’s attention to detail from an early training in sound recording.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Chesham High SchoolBachelor of Music (BMus), Music and Sound Recording, Bachelor of Music (BMus), Music and Sound Recording at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (13)
system10
typescript10
component-kit10
typescripts10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
sys10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
accessibility9
scs8
sc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cloudscape-design/components
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
React components for Cloudscape Design System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:456 reviews, 25 commits, 225 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Gethin primarily focused on improving the user interface and component behavior within the Cloudscape Design System repository. Their contributions involved refactoring and updating component interfaces, specifically addressing accessibility concerns and documentation. They also implemented fixes for existing components, ensuring proper focus management and component sizing, which improved overall usability. Additionally, the user contributed to documentation updates.
reactdesign-systemreact-componentstypescriptscss
aws/awsui-documentation
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Information on how to get started using AWS UI components
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 1 month
ui-componentsget-startedaws
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