Scott Hutchinson
Senior Frontend Engineer at Valiant Finance
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorScott Hutchinson is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of web development experience and deep expertise in crafting polished, accessible user interfaces. He began at Silverstripe in 2015 and progressed from intern to principal developer, leading a squad and shipping high-profile sites like Westpac NZ and NZTA while driving tooling and process improvements. More recently he’s delivered fast-moving feature work and mentorship as a contractor at Somar Digital and now focuses on frontend excellence at Valiant Finance. An active contributor to Silverstripe’s open-source ecosystem, his commits show a practical attention to UI/UX, accessibility, and maintainable CSS that keeps large CMS codebases stable. He combines full-stack fluency with a reputation for teaching junior engineers and improving team practices to produce long-lived, user-centered software.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
ux-design10
cms10
javascript10
silverstripe10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
form-validation9
back-end-development9
php9
scs8
sc8
fest7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-userforms
Aug 2015 - Nov 2020
UserForms module provides a visual form builder for the Silverstripe CMS. No coding required to build forms such as contact pages.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 24 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on improving the user interface and front-end functionality of the UserForms module for Silverstripe CMS. Their contributions included enhancements to the progress bar, styling modifications for the CMS interface, and improvements to the user experience when adding new form fields. They also addressed accessibility concerns and fixed issues related to form validation and the display of heading fields.
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silverstripe/silverstripe-framework
Jan 2015 - Nov 2020
Silverstripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 56 PRs, 75 comments in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott made several front-end focused changes within the Silverstripe Framework, primarily addressing UI/UX improvements. These commits include fixing z-index issues with the sidebar, removing 'important' from gridfield hover styles, changing cursor styles for drag and drop icons, and updating the styling of various elements such as the button and tab styles, batch actions and the filtered tree. The user also addressed several CSS updates and implemented enhancements in the CMS interface.
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