Tom Ardern
Lead Frontend Developer at Midnite
Flitwick, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Ardern is a Lead Frontend Developer with 13 years of experience building UX-led web applications for startups, scale-ups and multi-million-pound PLCs. He combines pragmatic frontend architecture and component-driven design with a full-stack mindset—delivering maintainable, testable code, CI/CD pipelines and frequent low-risk releases. At Bloom & Wild he led an eight-person frontend community, created a multi-brand component design system and drove large A/B testing and analytics integrations to inform product decisions. Comfortable in Agile environments, he mentors junior engineers, improves release automation and prioritises tech debt alongside product roadmaps. A long-time self-employed web designer since 2005, he brings hands-on freelance experience and a habit of digging into business context to design reusable technical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Web Technologies, Web Development, Front-End/Server-Side Programming, Data Mining, Databases, Project Management, 1st Class - 79% Average, Bsc Web Technologies, Web Development, Front-End/Server-Side Programming, Data Mining, Databases, Project Management, 1st Class - 79% Average at University of PortsmouthA-Levels, 1 A, 1 B, 1 C Grade, A-Levels, 1 A, 1 B, 1 C Grade at Sponne School 6th Form, TowcesterGSCEs, 7 As, 4 Bs, 1 C, GSCEs, 7 As, 4 Bs, 1 C at Sponne School, Towcester
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Github Skills (200)
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graphql-api10
browser10
react-testing-library10
firefox10
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html10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BloomAndWild/contentful-vscode-html-editor
May 2018 - Jan 2020
VSCode "Monaco" HTML editor for Contentful fields
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
contentfulemmetmonacovscodevscode-extension
tomardern/GumtreeEnhancementSuite
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 2 days
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