Nils Sanderson
UI Technical Designer at Build A Rocket Boy
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNils Sanderson is a UI Technical Designer with 11+ years building polished, user-focused interfaces and design systems from concept to production. He blends UX sensibility with front-end engineering, having led Design System adoption that reached 60% of a product suite and shipped features across PC and console for titles like MindsEye. At Learning Pool he cut analytics costs by over 30% while creating reusable data widgets and a Figma plugin that sped client theming and sales demos. Comfortable owning features end-to-end, he has led teams, managed an office, and automated release pipelines across web and VR projects. Based in Belfast, he combines hands-on implementation with tooling and process improvements that consistently boost developer velocity and user engagement. An unusual strength is shipping cross-platform UI work that spans entertainment (console/VR) and enterprise analytics, showing rare versatility across industries.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MA in User Experience Design & Applied Innovation, Design and Applied Arts, First, MA in User Experience Design & Applied Innovation, Design and Applied Arts, First at Letterkenny Institute of TechnologyBSc in Multimedia Computing & Design, Computer Science, 2.1, BSc in Multimedia Computing & Design, Computer Science, 2.1 at Ulster UniversityA-Levels, ICT, Physical Education, A-Levels, ICT, Physical Education at Rainey Endowed School
English
Github Skills (89)
xapi10
displays10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
fallback10
ember10
isolation10
javascript10
graphic10
html10
width10
angular10
storybook-addon10
typescript10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nilslp/adapt-contrib-narrative
May 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
reactdisplaysvuegalleryimage-gallery
nilslp/adapt-contrib-boxmenu
Oct 2015 - Mar 2019
A simple contributed menu based upon a grid system
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
cssgridgrid-systemmenu
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