Natalie Carey
Founder at Skiller Whale
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNatalie Carey is a full‑stack software engineer with over a decade of experience delivering pragmatic, user-centred solutions for UK government and commercial clients. She specialises in Node, PHP and Java, champions TDD/BDD, and has a strong track record of prototyping and front-end improvements that make services easier to build and maintain. As Tech Lead of the widely used GOV.UK Prototype Kit she introduced plugin support, in‑browser plugin management and clearer in‑browser error reporting, and continues to lead an open-source alternative through Now Prototype It. Her work spans hands‑on refactoring (e.g. migrating govuk-prototype-kit from libsass to Dart Sass and removing jQuery) to platform engineering patterns like strangler migrations at GOV.UK Pay. Based in Portsmouth, she pairs technical craftsmanship with coaching and training, running sessions on TDD, TypeScript and security for teams across government and industry.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (5)
sass10
front-end-development10
nunjucks9
html7
javascript7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/govuk-prototype-kit
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Rapidly create HTML prototypes of GOV.UK services
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 286 reviews, 269 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Natalie primarily focused on updating and refactoring the GOV.UK Prototype Kit's codebase. They addressed compatibility issues by switching from libsass to Dart Sass. The user removed jQuery, allowing it to be installed separately if needed, and added new templates and components. They also restructured the project's file organization, moving templates into a namespaced area and adding new filters.
govprototype-kitprototypingprototypesgovernment
nowprototypeit/govuk
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
A fork for prototyping within UK Government
Contributions:5 releases, 30 PRs, 108 pushes in 2 months
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