Harry Roberts
Consultant Front-end Architect at CSS Wizardry Ltd.
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHarry Roberts is a Consultant Front-end Architect with 15 years’ experience specialising in web performance, front-end architecture, and scalable, maintainable CSS. He runs international engagements—optimising site speed, training teams, and delivering architecture for clients such as Google, the BBC, the UN, the Financial Times and the NHS. Creator and maintainer in the CSS community (inuit.css, ITCSS) and author of practical tools like the ct head-inspector, he combines hands-on development with high-level transformation work. Equally comfortable briefing engineers or execs, he turns short tactical audits into lasting performance culture shifts that improve ranking, conversions and sustainability. An energetic trainer who’s taught tens of thousands of developers, he’s known for making site-speed both technical and contagious.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, General Studies, 13½ A*–C GCSEs, High School, General Studies, 13½ A*–C GCSEs at Whitcliffe Mount High School
English
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Github Skills (16)
css10
html10
sass10
css-frameworks10
front-end-development10
web-development9
responsive-design9
javascript8
typography8
file-organization6
git6
css-float6
bem6
itcss6
github6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
csswizardry/inuit.css
Apr 2011 - Jun 2016
Powerful, scalable, Sass-based, BEM, OOCSS framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:496 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Harry focused on updating and maintaining the inuit.css framework, a Sass-based CSS framework. They implemented new additions to the framework, fixed media queries, and updated the example files, specifically demonstrating a focus on the visual and structural aspects of the CSS. They also addressed typographical issues and included comment updates to improve the readability of the CSS.
primerscalablesasscssbem
csswizardry/ct
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Let’s take a look inside your <head>…
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 1 push in 8 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily contributed to the front-end development of a tool designed to analyze the `<head>` section of HTML documents. Their work involved implementing the core functionality of the tool, specifically focusing on CSS modifications to highlight potential issues in the `<head>` section of HTML pages. The commits demonstrate the addition of features such as identifying and visually marking different types of elements (scripts, stylesheets, etc.) based on their properties. These changes included improvements in code readability and the addition of a bookmarklet to enhance user experience.
lookjavascriptlethead
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