NickĀ Fitzsimons
Proprietor at Earthmarks Limited
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Fitzsimons is a seasoned web developer and proprietor based in Leicester with over two decades of hands-on experience building accessible, standards-compliant front- and back-end web applications since 1996. He combines deep expertise in (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XSLT, SVG/MathML and PHP/MySQL with a strong focus on W3C standards and WAI-ARIA accessibility. His career spans consultancy and contract roles for brands and organisations such as Capital One, BBC, Yahoo! Europe and GCap Media, delivering everything from real-time trader UIs to award-winning promotional campaigns. A former systems and games programmer fluent in assembly and Forth, he brings low-level thinking to high-level web architecture and optimisation. As proprietor of Earthmarks Limited he consults and develops projects, blending pragmatic engineering with long-term standards knowledge.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bedford SchoolB.A. Hons., Philosophy, B.A. Hons., Philosophy at University of Leicester
Github Skills (65)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NickFitz/HTML-Map-Element-UseCases-Requirements
May 2019 - Sep 2020
Use cases and requirements for Maps on the Web
Contributions:30 PRs, 93 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 3 months
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uktrade/help-desk-service
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 58 reviews, 104 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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