Harry Ashton

Co-Founder at Front End Now

United States
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Harry Ashton is a front-end leader and educator with nine years of experience building accessible, design-driven UIs and component libraries for companies like EO Charging and Thrive LXP. As Co-Founder of Front End Now, he coaches career switchers and beginners to land front-end roles or freelance gigs in months—backed by a job guarantee and a track record of 70+ offers for students. He brings hands-on expertise in React, TypeScript, micro-frontends and WCAG-compliant tooling, having built in-house accessibility audit tools and led UI strategy across product teams. Based in Greater Nottingham, he combines a creative media background with pragmatic engineering and a blunt, realistic coaching style that stresses consistency over shortcuts.
code9 years of coding experience
job13 years of employment as a software developer
bookMedia Creatives FdA, Multimedia, Media Creatives FdA, Multimedia at Nottingham Trent University
bookDjanogly City Technology Academy
bookNCN High Pavement
languagesEnglish
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Github Skills (46)

webpack-config10
near9
webpack9
compatibility9
react9
eslint8
typescript8
apollo8
bootstrap8
algolia7
javascript7
mongodb7
graphql7
frontend7
nodejs6

Programming languages (9)

TypeScriptC++CSSRustSCSSJavaScriptPHPLua

Github contributions (5)

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A killer Storybook Webpack config to help you bootstrap a great storybook config ASAP. It includes a React Frontend, GraphQL compatibility for Storybook, TypeScript, Babel, and ESlint.
Contributions:1 review, 62 commits, 39 PRs in 3 years 4 months
storybook-configwebpack-configeslintgreatbootstrap
thehashton/Grumble

Feb 2019 - Oct 2022

Find a place to eat. A React, GraphQL, MongoDB, Typescript PWA. Helping users find places to eat near them (WIP)
Contributions:470 commits, 122 PRs, 207 pushes in 3 years 9 months
pwareactjsmongodbreact-graphqleat
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Harry Ashton - Co-Founder at Front End Now