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.
12 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 (31)
gulp10
browserify10
ui-components9
nunjucks9
designer9
new-project9
invoke9
pattern-lab8
anchor8
html-editor8
storm7
react7
lightbox-gallery6
smooth6
cookie6
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
mjbp/storm-component-boilerplate
Feb 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:60 pushes, 5 branches, 3 tags in 2 years 6 months
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