Paul Spence
Front End Engineer at Aberdeen
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Spence is a Front End Engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable React and TypeScript applications, recently focused on Next.js and full-stack BFF patterns. He has delivered front-end architectures across agencies, consultancies and startups, shipping component-driven design systems, multi-tenant portals and fintech dashboards from monorepos. Notable work includes implementing cloud IDAM with Forgerock, creating atomic component libraries with Nx and ShadCN, and owning Duende IdentityServer integrations via Auth.js. He pairs pragmatic engineering—unit testing with Jest/ViTest and introducing PACT—to reliable delivery, and has practical experience across AWS, Azure, microfrontends and headless e-commerce. Based in Edinburgh, Paul brings a maker’s mindset (he didn’t start as a coder but always had projects on the go) and actively learns new patterns to keep teams shipping efficient solutions.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Multimedia Technology Multimedia, BSc Multimedia Technology Multimedia at Edinburgh Napier UniversityKnox Academy
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Github Skills (23)
atom-plugin8
mobile-phones8
azerothcore7
twine7
face-recognition5
tagging5
discovery4
face-detection4
photo-gallery4
macos3
image-processing3
exif3
modular3
linux3
photography3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spenc259/modulus
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
A modular base theme
Contributions:55 commits, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 8 months
twinebase-themeatom-pluginazerothcorewordpress-theme
companieshouse/ch-account-ui
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 reviews, 420 commits, 228 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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