Summary
Mark Skinsley is a Frontend Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building responsive, production-ready web interfaces—particularly within higher education institutions across London. He specializes in CSS/Sass and JavaScript (vanilla, Node, React, jQuery), crafts HTML emails, and builds reusable Squiz Matrix CMS templates that empower non-technical editors to leverage a pattern library. At Pulselive he continues to apply modern frontend practices after leading redesign and UX-driven development at City, UCL and other university teams. Known for turning wireframes into robust prototypes, he blends design sensitivity with pragmatic engineering to deliver accessible, maintainable front-end systems. His background in journalism and international relations gives him a rare user-centric perspective on content strategy and stakeholder collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, International Relations and Politics, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, International Relations and Politics, 2:1 at The University of Sheffield
Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism, Journalism, Merit, Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism, Journalism, Merit at Harlow College
Spanish