Natalie Mclaren
Lead Frontend Engineer at Doist
Gibraltar
Summary
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Top SchoolNatalie Mclaren is a Lead Frontend Engineer with a decade of experience building responsive web applications, currently leading frontend development at Doist where she specializes in React and TypeScript. She brings deep expertise in state management with Redux, CSS/SCSS styling, and Webpack tooling, and has driven both greenfield rebuilds and critical bug investigations across startups and enterprise teams. Her background includes full-stack work and tooling at Baillie Gifford—where she delivered a standardized UAT app, rebuilt fund pages, and prototyped ML proofs of concept using AWS and cognitive services—showing she comfortably spans frontend, backend and cloud integrations. Early roles in Laravel/PHP and CMS migrations give her practical e-commerce and CMS experience, while her university placement and graduate programme established strong engineering discipline and testing practices. Based in Gibraltar, she blends hands-on implementation with leadership in product-focused teams and a habit of surfacing pragmatic solutions to thorny UI and integration problems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing & IT: Design with Solutions Development Pathway, Computer Science, Pass, BSc Computing & IT: Design with Solutions Development Pathway, Computer Science, Pass at The Open UniversityBSc Web Computing with a Year in Industry, Computer Science, 1st Class, BSc Web Computing with a Year in Industry, Computer Science, 1st Class at University of Kent
English, Spanish
Github Skills (91)
wysiwyg10
typist10
rich-text10
text-editing10
newsapi10
react10
rich-text-editor10
twitter-feed9
javascript9
react-components9
markdown9
prosemirror9
rte9
contenteditable9
text-editor9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nats12/Newscape
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Newscape fuses Twitter & News APIs to give users a personalised dashboard of their favourite news sources alongside their Twitter feed 📰
Contributions:49 commits, 84 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
favouritedashboardnewsreactjssources
nats12/dever
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:5 commits in 8 months
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