Ollie Curtis
Full Stack Developer at Skyscanner
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
RockstarOllie Curtis is a Full Stack Developer based in London with eight years of experience building web applications and shipping polished user interfaces. He combines back-end and front-end fluency with a particular strength in React-driven component work, having contributed to Skyscanner’s widely used Backpack design system. His contributions there included upgrading form elements and adding UX-focused components like calendars and price markers, showing attention to accessibility, design fidelity, and interaction detail. Comfortable across the stack, Ollie pairs pragmatic engineering with a designer’s eye to improve usability and consistency. He’s active in open source work that impacts large-scale consumer products, suggesting an ability to collaborate on cross-team design systems. Colleagues describe him as a dependable implementer who elevates product quality through thoughtful UI craftsmanship.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
react10
ui-components10
css9
javascript8
accessibility8
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Skyscanner/backpack
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Backpack Design System for the Web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 1361 reviews, 696 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ollie primarily contributed to the Backpack design system for the Web, focusing on the implementation of user interface (UI) components with React. Their work involved updating existing components like form validation, selects, textareas, and buttons to align with the latest design guidelines. They also added new components, such as the calendar and price markers, demonstrating a focus on the overall user experience by enhancing the visual presentation and interaction of UI elements.
reactskyscannernodejsdesign-systemcomponent-library
Skyscanner/full-stack-recruitment-test
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:18 reviews, 16 commits, 36 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.