Jim Coffey
Frontend Developer at Blis
Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Coffey is a Frontend Developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building user-focused web applications and complex dashboards across sectors including media, retail, telecoms and government. He specializes in React and Angular ecosystems, modern front-end patterns (Suspense, Hooks, code-splitting) and full-stack JavaScript, having delivered production work for organizations such as the BBC, Sky, William Hill and the European Commission. Comfortable in high-stakes, regulated environments, he also brings back-end and DevOps experience from Node, PHP, AWS and Docker deployments, and has reworked legacy systems into testable, modular apps. An active open-source contributor, he improved the UX, performance and telemetry of Automattic’s widely used Jetpack plugin. Trained initially in microbiology and later in computer science, he combines scientific curiosity with pragmatic engineering to keep learning and solving complex product problems. Based in Wakefield, UK, he thrives on marrying data-driven thinking with elegant, maintainable front-end code.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Microbiology, BSc, Bachelor's Degree, Microbiology, BSc at Newcastle UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Science, MSc, Master's Degree, Computer Science, MSc at University of Bradford
English
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
react10
jsx10
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
wordpress9
php8
plugin8
testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Jetpack plugin, specifically within the context of the disconnect dialog. They implemented tracking for user interactions within the dialog, including button clicks and link activations. The user also improved the performance of the disconnect dialog and refactored the component to integrate with new features. Additionally, they contributed to unit tests for the components.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
jim-coffey/truepill_gui
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:25 PRs, 18 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 11 months
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