Leo Baker-hytch
Frontend Engineer at Frontify
Flims, Grisons, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Baker-hytch is a Frontend Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience across front-end, full-stack, and backend roles, currently building user-facing systems at Frontify from his base in Flims, Switzerland. He has a proven track record of taking products from conception through deployment, having shipped features and architecture improvements at companies ranging from startups like GoSquared to enterprise-focused teams at Weisse Arena Gruppe and inside labs AG. Comfortable bridging design and infrastructure, he brings a solid computer systems and software engineering foundation (First Class honours, University of York) to pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Notably, his career shows a deliberate progression from frontend specialization into senior full-stack and backend responsibilities, signaling both depth in UI engineering and fluency with server-side systems. Colleagues rely on him for reliable delivery, clear system design, and an ability to translate complex requirements into clean, user-centered implementations.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Systems and Software Engineering, Computer Science, First Class Honours, BSc Computer Systems and Software Engineering, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of York
Github Skills (85)
env10
textarea10
dotenv10
environment-variables10
android10
12-factor10
react10
mount9
api9
react-native9
strongly-typed9
ios9
editors9
cross-platform9
nodejs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LeoBakerHytch/ts-dotenv
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Strongly-typed environment variables for Node.js
Contributions:1 release, 121 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 2 months
environment-variablesconfigurationnode-jsdotenvstrongly-typed
insidelabs/contentful-tools
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Tools for working with Contentful
Contributions:13 PRs, 81 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
contentfulreact
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