Ian Leggett
Senior Front-end Developer at Sky
Walton-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Leggett is a Senior Front-end Developer with over a decade of commercial experience designing and building accessible, enterprise-grade web applications, design systems and style guides for sectors ranging from finance and government to gaming and digital film. He thrives in agile, CI/CD-driven teams and brings strong expertise in modern JavaScript (ES6+), React, CSS architecture (ITCSS/BEM) and front-end tooling like Webpack and Node-based build systems. Ian has a track record of shaping front-end delivery at organisations such as Sky, the Department for International Trade and ThoughtWorks, often pushing test-driven development and user-research-led iteration. He combines a designer’s sensibility (HND in Product Design) with hands-on engineering, which helps him bridge design and development to deliver durable, user-focused components. Colleagues rely on him to evaluate new JS features and libraries practically—balancing innovation with maintainability to speed up real-world development.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
CIW, Web Design, CIW, Web Design at ComputeachHND, Product Design and Manufacture, HND, Product Design and Manufacture at University of PlymouthAdvanced GNVQ Art and Design, Art and Design, Advanced GNVQ Art and Design, Art and Design at North Devon College
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Github Skills (75)
rendering10
data-access10
data-infrastructure10
static-assets10
nodejs10
frontend10
react10
derived9
tax9
api8
data-api8
rewrite8
cypress-plugin7
django7
selenium-webdriver7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
EqualExperts/ee-styleguide
Jan 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 108 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
ian-leggett/your-tax-calculator-frontend
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:58 pushes, 16 branches, 5 tags in 1 month
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