Rich Plastow
Senior Frontend Developer at Immersive Interactive
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Plastow is an award-winning senior frontend developer based in London with two decades of experience crafting high-performance, accessible web apps for brands like BBC, NBCUniversal, Sony and Volvo. He specialises in React, Next.js, Node.js and TypeScript, and regularly architects monorepos, component systems and testing pipelines to keep production sites fast, maintainable and secure. Comfortable across web, desktop (Electron) and cloud/edge services, he blends front-end polish—UX, motion and Three.js—with pragmatic backend work and serverless tooling. A seasoned freelancer and consultant, he’s shipped greenfield Turborepo projects, interactive 3D configurators and AI-linked chatbot pilots for BBC Bitesize, helping shape safety standards for generative AI in education. His background in graphic communication and photography informs a keen eye for visual detail and design-system thinking that tightens the gap between design and code.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA(Hons) Graphic Communication with Painting and Photography, BA(Hons) Graphic Communication with Painting and Photography at University of Wolverhampton
English
Github Skills (9)
uglifyjs7
parser7
compressor5
javascript4
wordpress-rest-api4
gulp3
rest2
gulpjs2
isomorphic-javascript1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
richplastow/docleidoscope
Jun 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 1 month
loopdotcoop/undoiverse
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 20 pushes in 3 months
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