Paul Hammond
Contract Full Stack Web Developer at Equal Experts
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Hammond is a contract Full Stack Web Developer with 11 years’ experience building and optimizing React and Node-driven front ends for major UK brands, including BBC Sport, Sky, EA and NewDay. He combines pragmatic engineering with a strong advocacy for TDD, functional programming and lean continuous delivery practices, helping teams simplify codebases and improve automated testing while still shipping features. Known for establishing engineering excellence at scale, Paul is equally interested in component libraries, design systems, accessibility and JAMstack performance. He also created a paid course on TDD, reflecting his commitment to teaching best practices, and currently represents Pack Software LTD across multiple agile projects. Based in Knutsford, he brings a history degree background and a clear focus on writing simple, maintainable code that teams can confidently build upon.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, History, Bachelor of Arts - BA, History at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (200)
atom-editor10
ui-components10
testing10
twilio-api10
http-client10
automation10
jest-transformer10
ascii10
jsx10
test-coverage10
browser10
mantine10
service-worker10
firefox10
api10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
citypaul/fullstack-react-tdd-example
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
A repository designed to show good modern testing practices. Created to illustrate key points for a talk I gave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBkEz-Azsak
Contributions:44 PRs, 80 pushes, 45 branches in 1 year 9 months
jestpresentationreactreact-testing-librarystorybook
citypaul/mac-dev-machine-setup
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:144 commits, 89 PRs, 426 pushes in 1 year 1 month
gitpodwasteinstallationmacautomation
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