Mick Perkins
Technical Lead at Storm ID
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMick Perkins is a Technical Lead based in Edinburgh with 11 years of professional experience evolving from full LAMP-stack development to leading modern JavaScript, React and React Native projects. He specializes in front-end architecture, component-driven UIs, accessibility and state management (Redux/Flux), while also integrating front ends with .NET, Umbraco and cloud platforms like Azure and Heroku. Mick has built reusable JS component libraries, mobile apps and developer tooling, and champions best practices in testing, CI and modular build systems. A former partner at a digital agency, he combines client-facing project leadership with deep hands-on craft and mentoring of teams. His academic background in Philosophy, Logic and an MSc in Multimedia gives him a pragmatic, analytical approach to complex UI problems and product design.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MA (Hons) Philosophy, Logic and metaphysics, MA (Hons) Philosophy, Logic and metaphysics at University of St. AndrewsMSc Multimedia and Interactive Systems, Computing, MSc Multimedia and Interactive Systems, Computing at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (37)
handlebars10
gulp10
gulp-plugin10
gulp-babel10
react10
ui-components9
scaffold9
nunjucks9
designer9
browserify9
scroll8
pattern-lab8
new-project8
sass8
invoke8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
stormid/storm-modal-gallery
Nov 2016 - Aug 2020
Modal gallery/lightbox
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
gallerylightboxlightbox-gallerymodal
stormid/components
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
UI components
Contributions:52 reviews, 457 commits, 261 PRs in 3 years 11 months
reactui-components
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