Houston Blyden
Senior Software Engineer at Holland & Barrett
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHouston Blyden is a Senior Software Engineer based in Birmingham with nearly a decade of hands-on experience specializing in front-end development and interactive design. He has progressed from front-end web designer roles to senior engineering at Holland & Barrett, blending visual design sensibilities with pragmatic engineering. His background includes public sector and agency work, giving him experience balancing accessibility, performance, and stakeholder-driven requirements. Comfortable delivering production-facing UI across teams, he brings a steady track record of shipping iterative improvements and redesigns. Trained in Interactive Media at Nottingham Trent, he pairs a designer’s eye with engineering discipline—often surfacing usability gains that aren’t obvious in early feature specs. Colleagues rely on him to translate design intent into maintainable, accessible front-end code.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Multimedia (Interactive Media), Bachelor's degree Multimedia (Interactive Media) at Nottingham Trent University
Github Skills (8)
documented10
typography9
styles9
user-interface7
planning7
react6
transport5
php4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wmcadigital/wmn-find-rail-zones
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
A service to help you find what rail zones you travel within throughout the West Midlands.
Contributions:3 reviews, 19 PRs, 39 pushes in 10 months
reactrailstravelzoneswmn
wmcadigital/wmn-find-a-ticket
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:55 PRs, 123 pushes, 34 branches in 9 months
tramwmnbuswest-midlandswest-midlands-network
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