Liam Johnston
Principal Frontend Engineer at Self employed
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolLiam Johnston is a Principal Frontend Engineer based in Wellington with 13 years of experience designing and shipping polished, user-focused web interfaces. He leads frontend delivery at Springload, evolving from developer to principal while balancing hands-on UI work with team and product guidance. Liam's practical design chops trace back to leading UX for Kitomba's salon booking platforms and launching ecommerce at Boohoo, and he still codes UI details—most notably the front end of The Great Suspender, a Chrome extension with over a million users. He’s a frequent CodePen contributor, showcasing visual and interaction-focused experiments that inform his production work. Comfortable across HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Liam combines UX sensibility with pragmatic engineering to turn complex workflows into simple, usable interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Information Technology, Diploma, Information Technology at UCOL
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
chrome-extension10
chrome-plugin10
chrome-app10
browser-extension10
sass6
jquery-ui6
fullcalendar6
ios6
fullcalendar-scheduler6
jquery6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender
Sep 2012 - Mar 2019
A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 14 PRs, 78 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Liam primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the chrome extension, focusing on the user interface. They added and modified HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code to implement a top bar indicating tab suspension, add labels to the main popup, and improve the visual design with style tweaks. Furthermore, the user improved the styling of the welcome screen, settings, and history pages.
chrome-extensionmemorytabschrome
liamjohnston/weather
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
Because the internet needs more weather apps (currently hard-coded for Wellington NZ)
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
wellingtoninternet
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