Phil Thompson
Senior Frontend Engineer at ExTrac
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Thompson is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in London with over 20 years of hands-on experience crafting performant, accessible design systems for FinTech, travel, ecommerce and government clients. He combines pragmatic front-end engineering (React, React Native, TypeScript and vanilla JS) with strong judgement about when to adopt libraries versus bespoke solutions, quickly shipping production-ready code across new stacks. Phil has led accessibility programs to WCAG 2.2 AA maturity, trained cross-functional teams, and embedded automated a11y checks into CI pipelines to make inclusivity repeatable at scale. His freelance and agency background includes high-profile clients such as The Economist, Viacom, Topshop and the UK Home Office, where he often owned greenfield builds and design system rollouts. Comfortable leading small teams and mentoring midweight/junior engineers, he also brings product-minded instincts from co-founding an ecommerce studio that grew client revenues substantially. Less obvious: he excels at turning legacy platforms into modern, testable components and integrating accessibility into the build process rather than treating it as an afterthought.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing at The Manchester Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (31)
image10
speech10
vue9
huggingface9
chat9
chatbot9
react9
angular9
nextjs8
ai8
navigator8
openai8
svelte8
chatgpt8
react-native7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
imgiseverything/philthompson.co.uk
Feb 2015 - Mar 2025
All the code for philthompson.co.uk website
Contributions:20 PRs, 110 pushes, 24 branches in 10 years 3 months
python
imgiseverything/a11y-tests
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:160 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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