Matt Leathes
Senior Front End Engineer at Intellum
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Leathes is a Senior Front End Engineer with 12 years of experience building accessible, responsive web experiences using React and TypeScript, currently shaping e-learning at Intellum's Evolve platform. He brings deep front-end expertise from long-term roles at City & Guilds Kineo and open-source contributions to the widely used adapt_framework, where his work improved UI, accessibility, and multilingual course delivery. Passionate about web accessibility and intuitive UX, he pairs pragmatic refactoring and bug-fixing with a focus on scalable, maintainable code. Based in England, he blends practical engineering with creative interests—cooking, music, snowsports and dogs—which inform a user-centered approach not obvious from code alone.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Winchester College
French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
html10
accessibility10
javascript10
responsive-design9
css8
debugging6
internet-explorer6
svn6
html5-video6
fullscreen6
chromecast6
popup6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
adaptlearning/adapt_framework
Nov 2014 - Apr 2021
A toolkit for creating responsive, accessible, multilanguage HTML5 e-learning courses.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:60 releases, 75 reviews, 420 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the `adapt_framework` repository. Their commits demonstrate expertise in HTML and JavaScript, focusing on improvements to the user interface and accessibility. They addressed issues related to the correct display of content, user interactions, and adhering to accessibility guidelines. Additionally, they worked on bug fixes and code refactoring to improve the framework's functionality.
accessiblecssjavascripte-learningxapi
adaptlearning/adapt-contrib-spoor
May 2014 - Apr 2021
A basic scorm tracking plugin for Adapt
Contributions:35 releases, 19 reviews, 208 commits in 7 years
adaptscormtracking-plugintracking
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