Joe Critchley
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Critchley is an experienced engineering consultant and founder with 15 years in web development, currently delivering full‑stack work for clients including Nike and design studios through his consultancy JOECRITCH LTD. He specializes in React and interface development—bringing nearly a decade of hands‑on React experience to projects ranging from intricate UIs to large editorial platforms. Joe combines agency‑style collaboration with startup pragmatism, having co‑founded Strobe and contributed to high‑profile open source documentation for the React project (improving UI, CSS and code highlighting on the official site). Based in England, he’s adept at translating design intent into polished, production-ready interfaces while also tackling API and platform concerns when projects demand it. Notably, his background blends long-term contractor agility with contributions to one of the web’s most influential UI ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Barrow-in-Furness Sixth Form College
Stackoverflow
1,105reputation
125kreached
5answers
23questions
Github Skills (14)
gatsbyjs10
css10
javascript10
gatsby10
react10
ui-design9
frontend9
html6
heroku6
php6
laravel6
jquery6
ruby-on-rails6
shopify6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
react/react
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
The library for web and native user interfaces.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 32 PRs, 70 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the React-based documentation and the Gatsby-powered website of the React project. They implemented UI improvements by adding an external link icon to the documentation navigation and modifying the homepage's title. Their work also included refactoring CSS, updating image locations, removing the Typekit font, and improving line highlighting in code snippets. The changes involved the use of theme variables and CSS modifications.
user-interfacereactjavascript-libraryjavascriptdeclarative
joecritch/behave.js
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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