Richard Willis
Senior Full Stack Developer at Chevin Fleet Solutions
Thirsk, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Willis is a Senior Full Stack Developer based in Thirsk, England, with nearly a decade of professional experience building web applications and design systems. He has progressed from hands-on full-stack roles and agency work to senior engineering positions at Skyscanner and Chevin Fleet Solutions, where he focuses on React-driven front ends and robust back-end integrations. An active contributor to Skyscanner’s popular Backpack design system, he has shipped UI component enhancements that improved styling flexibility and repositioning behavior for complex interfaces. Comfortable across AngularJS, React, Redux and full-stack stacks (including Scala and .NET in past projects), he blends pragmatic engineering with a history of leading small teams and running his own web business. Colleagues would describe him as quietly effective—he “pushes buttons” but also architects predictable, maintainable UI systems that scale.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
St David's Marist InandaHND, Software Development, HND, Software Development at CTI Education Group
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
component-library10
sys10
react10
webservice9
rest9
xml9
html6
internet-explorer6
encryption6
asp-net6
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Skyscanner/backpack
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Backpack Design System for the Web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the Backpack Design System for the Web, focusing on enhancing and extending UI components. Their work included adding features to existing components like `BpkPopoverPortal` and `BpkChip`, allowing for custom styling and improved repositioning behavior. They also implemented new features and stories related to existing components, such as the barchart. The commits demonstrate expertise in React and component-based development.
reactskyscannernodejsdesign-systemcomponent-library
badsyntax/dokku-setup
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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