Sam Turrell
Lead Frontend Engineer at hedgehog lab
York, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Turrell is a Lead Frontend Engineer based in York, UK with 11 years of experience building polished, accessible web interfaces and leading engineering teams. Currently at hedgehog lab after a decade-long senior leadership stint at Netsells, he combines hands-on front-end craftsmanship with people leadership to deliver UX-focused solutions. Sam contributes to notable open-source projects like SweetAlert2, improving modal animations, build exports and accessibility-aware behaviors—demonstrating attention to detail beyond typical leadership duties. He holds a BSc in Information Technology from The Open University and brings a track record of turning UI polish and build-process improvements into tangible product quality wins.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology at The Open UniversityExtended Diploma, Information Technology, Extended Diploma, Information Technology at Yorkshire Coast CollegeRaincliffe School
English
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
javascript10
animation9
accessibility8
angular3
react3
vue3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sweetalert2/sweetalert2
May 2016 - Oct 2017
✨ A beautiful, responsive, highly customizable and accessible (WAI-ARIA) replacement for JavaScript's popup boxes. Zero dependencies. 🇺🇦
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the front-end development of the SweetAlert2 library. Their work focused on enhancing the user experience by fixing modal fadeout animations and improving transition delays. They also addressed code cleanup tasks and made adjustments to the build process to enable better exporting for different bundler types and maintain clean logic. Furthermore, the user contributed by adding a warning message to address potential issues when the Promise library is not defined.
dependenciessweetalertnotificationsvuewai-aria
netsells/Nestable
Jul 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
jqueryjavascriptmousehierarchicaltouch
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