Mike Hayden
Co-founder CTO at Frontend Mentor
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Hayden is a Co-founder CTO and seasoned full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling web products from agency projects to education platforms and startups. Based in London, he blends hands-on React/Node/Mongo development with systems thinking—shipping deployment pipelines and mentoring engineers and clients alike. He co-founded Frontend Mentor while freelancing on platforms like Moveli, where he both developed the product and trained the in-house developer, demonstrating a knack for long-term technical relationships. A former curriculum lead and instructor at General Assembly, he brings strong pedagogy to technical leadership, emphasizing fundamentals and TDD to improve team outcomes. An introvert by nature, he leverages focus and self-teaching to drive creative problem solving and clear, pragmatic engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music, 2:1 at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
conversational french
Github Skills (85)
pa11y10
nodejs10
mongodb10
asynchronous10
orm10
odm10
modeling10
python9
axe9
wcag8
validation8
javascript8
testing8
react8
eslint-config8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mickyginger/rails-conversations
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
mickyginger/bejwelled
Aug 2017 - Jul 2019
Bejeweled Game
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
javascriptgame
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