Paul Hudson
Senior Front End Developer at Historic England
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Hudson is a Senior Front End Developer based in Swindon with over two decades of web experience and six years in focused front-end roles, currently shaping digital experiences at Historic England. He specializes in HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript, jQuery and responsive design, with practical expertise in accessibility, cross-browser/device compatibility, and mobile hybrid apps using PhoneGap/Cordova. Paul has a hands-on history running his own web hosting and development business, and has contributed accessibility and styling improvements to the widely used Arches geospatial platform. Comfortable collaborating with back-end teams and stakeholders, he pairs design tools like Photoshop with modern workflows using Node/NPM, Git and TFS. Known for meticulous adherence to W3C standards and usability, he brings a pragmatic blend of legacy web knowledge and contemporary front-end best practices.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Physics; Maths; BTEC OND Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Physics; Maths; BTEC OND Electrical and Electronic Engineering at BTEC HNC Computing TechnologySwindon College
Github Skills (6)
accessibility10
css10
responsive-design10
ui-design8
django5
python4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
archesproject/arches
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Arches is a web platform for creating, managing, & visualizing geospatial data. Arches was inspired by the needs of the Cultural Heritage community, particularly the widespread need of organizations to build & manage cultural heritage inventories
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 287 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on improving the accessibility and styling of the Arches web platform. They implemented various CSS changes to address accessibility issues, including focus states, contrast adjustments, and responsive design. Their contributions involved modifying the `index.css` and creating/modifying an `accessibility.css` file to achieve these improvements, making changes to elements like navigation, footer links and image reflow. These updates ensure a better user experience, especially for users with disabilities.
pythondjangocultural-heritageweb-apparcheology
HistoricEngland/arches
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
This is the Historic England working fork of the Arches project. If you wish to fork the project then please do so from the source at https://github.com/archesproject/arches
Contributions:42 reviews, 288 commits, 111 PRs in 2 years 10 months
wishenglandhistoric
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