Simon Evans
Delivery Manager at Torchbox
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Evans is a Delivery Manager based in Bristol with nine years of experience evolving from front-end developer to senior engineer and now leading delivery at Torchbox. He specializes in UI development for the nonprofit sector, with hands-on expertise improving usability and responsive design in high-profile open-source projects such as the Wagtail CMS and contributions to the Mozilla Foundation website. Simon has a proven track record of practical front-end engineering—refactoring SVG assets, enhancing commenting and notification UIs, and integrating JS libraries to build polished interactive components. He balances technical craft with delivery leadership, guiding teams to ship accessible, user-focused web experiences for mission-driven organisations. A BSc graduate from Aberystwyth University, he combines long-term product context at Torchbox with a habit of contributing meaningful, maintainable UI improvements to well-known community projects.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at Aberystwyth UniversityGuilsborough School
Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
cms10
javascript10
wagtail10
front-end-development10
react9
sc9
ui-design9
scs9
responsive-design9
git7
django4
python4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MozillaFoundation/foundation.mozilla.org
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Mozilla Foundation website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 56 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Mozilla Foundation website. Their work involved implementing a static carousel feature within the "youtube-regrets-2021" section. They added HTML, JavaScript (carousel.js), and CSS (likely via SCSS) to create and style the carousel, including controls, slides, and animations. This involved integrating a third-party library, `@glidejs/glide`. Additionally, they made minor code tidies and merged code from another branch.
web-appmozillamozfoundation
wagtail/wagtail
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 14 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon focused on enhancing the user interface and commenting features within the Wagtail CMS. Their contributions included refactoring and updating logo SVG partials, improving the commenting layout by adding icons and refining the overall responsive design for mobile. The user implemented improvements to the notification toggle UI, further enhancing the user experience.
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangouser-experience
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