Matthew Balaam
Lead UI Engineer at Shieldpay
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Balaam is a pragmatic frontend engineer with 14 years of experience building accessible, maintainable React and TypeScript applications and design systems. Currently leading UI at Shieldpay, he specialises in Remix-based SSR apps, component libraries and progressive enhancement—favouring web-platform solutions over heavy JavaScript where possible. He’s experienced shipping reliable test suites (Playwright, Vitest, Cypress) and migrating legacy toolchains toward modern stacks. Based in Greater Brighton, he combines hands-on coding with team leadership and a background in graphic design, which informs his attention to UI detail and developer-facing component ergonomics.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. (Hons.) Media with Cultural Studies, B.A. (Hons.) Media with Cultural Studies at Solent University
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Github Skills (200)
amazon-cognito10
testing10
automation10
broadcasting10
obs10
cypress-plugin10
recording10
localization10
pouchdb10
firefox10
api10
cloud-services10
intl10
dom10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
MattyBalaam/matthew-balaam.co.uk
Jul 2020 - Nov 2024
This is my CV site
Contributions:10 PRs, 11 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 4 months
cssjavascriptcv-site
MattyBalaam/go-flex.it
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
website for The Flex international party
Contributions:8 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
flexparty
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