Jonny Kates
Technical Lead at William Joseph (B Corp)
Poole, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJonny Kates is a Technical Lead and self-taught web generalist with over a decade building accessible, high-performance websites for charities, social enterprises and public-sector clients. Based in Poole, he leads engineering at B Corp creative agency William Joseph, translating Figma designs into component-driven frontends and owning DevOps and CI/CD across multiple products. His career blends design sensibility with pragmatic engineering—having created a multi-tenant, design-token SCSS framework that saved £40k per quarter and introduced a React/Storybook component library for a leading charity platform. Comfortable moving between product, design and delivery, Jonny excels at turning client needs into technical proposals and repeatable delivery patterns. With a first-class BSc in Human Geography and 15 years of client-facing digital experience, he brings a rare mix of user-centred design thinking and front-end craft to socially impactful organisations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Human Geography, 1st Class Hons, BSc, Human Geography, 1st Class Hons at The University of Reading
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Github Skills (86)
control-panel9
experiences9
silverstripe9
grav-plugin9
extensible9
craftcms9
php9
summernote9
mysqli9
bourbon9
twig9
prestashop-module8
grav8
wordpress8
angularjs-application8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jonnykates/dorset-piper
May 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 10 months
jonnykates/jonnykates.github.io
Jul 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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