Summary
Matt Wagg is a Senior Frontend Development Specialist with 11 years’ experience crafting accessible, high-performance React and Preact applications and component libraries for enterprise and charity sectors. He leads frontend architecture and long-term direction, pairing pragmatic, maintainable TypeScript and CSS solutions with user-centred design through close collaboration and iterative testing with designers. Comfortable across CMS-driven multisite builds (Drupal/WordPress), PWAs, and progressive frontend testing (Jest/Cypress), he also mentors teams and runs workshops to spread best practices. Notably, he has delivered resilient campaign-scale and high-traffic experiences as well as trusted research environment products where accessibility and extensibility are non-negotiable.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
JavaScript Development, JavaScript Development at General Assembly
Bachelor of Science, Web Development, 1st Class honours, Bachelor of Science, Web Development, 1st Class honours at Anglia Ruskin University
The Barclay School
City and Islington College