Jean-francois Hector
Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-francois Hector is a Platform Engineer with eight years’ experience specialising in accessible, interaction-focused front-end engineering and design systems. He has driven front-end strategy and delivered a WCAG 2.1 AA–compliant component library used across product teams, while cutting bundle sizes and improving maintainability through pragmatic architecture and performance practices. At Kooth he’s progressed from Principal Frontend Engineer to Tech Lead and Platform Engineer, blending hands-on React/TypeScript development with coaching and engineering leadership. He routinely bridges design and implementation—leading prototyping, usability research with vulnerable users, and shipping inclusive interfaces that designers and developers enjoy using. A frequent speaker on inclusive design, he combines product-minded research skills with deep browser and accessibility expertise.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
‘Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles’, ‘Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles’ at Lycée Fabert, Metz, FranceExcellence Diploma, Excellence Diploma at Institute of Practitioners in AdvertisingMasters in Management, Masters in Management at EDHEC Business SchoolJapanese, Japanese at Nagoya University
Github Skills (163)
javascript10
docz10
fomantic-ui10
wcag10
rapid-prototyping10
typescript10
axe10
accessibility10
loader10
frontend10
react-hot-loader10
react10
browser9
react-testing-library9
html9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jfhector/proto
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Simple, ready-to-use boilerplate for rapid prototyping with React, Typescript and React Hot Loader. Includes style presets, templates and patterns designed for rapid prototyping
Contributions:1 release, 236 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
react-hot-loaderpresetsbabelreactboilerplate
jfhector/202404_ml_w_pytorch_scikit
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:211 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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