Tim Ottewell
Senior Frontend Developer at Xerox
North Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Ottewell is a Senior Frontend Developer with 18+ years at Xerox, specializing in WordPress architecture, atomic-design component systems, and vanilla JS/Sass implementations. He transitioned from Flash/ActionScript roots to modern HTML/CSS/JavaScript and now owns the WordPress stack, building custom themes and plugins that power platform-agnostic web experiences. Comfortable across PHP, GitHub, and CI/CD with CircleCI, he also contributes backend/DevOps improvements such as SSH support and testing refinements on open-source tooling. Tim blends front-end engineering with UX and design sensibility, enabling practical, reusable component libraries rather than one-off pages. Based in North Hertfordshire, he pairs a first-class BSc in Multimedia Technology and Design with a long track record of evolving large enterprise web platforms.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Multimedia Technology and Design, 1st Class, BSc, Multimedia Technology and Design, 1st Class at Brunel University
Github Skills (8)
git10
github10
ssh10
cicd9
automation8
automations8
testing8
nodejs7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
intuit/auto
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Generate releases based on semantic version labels on pull requests.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Tim focused on enhancing the repository's functionality related to remote access via SSH. They implemented support for SSH connections, including verifying authentication and utilizing SSH URLs. Additionally, the user addressed testing configurations, specifically clearing and managing environment variables. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to prioritize SSH checks and removed permission checks.
publishingjirarelease-automationsemantic-versioningslack
tinytim84/auto
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Generate releases based on semantic version labels on pull requests.
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
pull-requestssemantic-versionsemantic
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