Tom Jardine-mcnamara
Freelance Software Engineer at Yogaraptor
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Jardine-mcnamara is a freelance software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in front-end development and conversion-focused product work for major clients like Sky and Booking.com. He combines hands-on contract delivery with entrepreneurial experience as the long-running owner of Ravenous and co-founder of a training-focused consultancy teaching TDD. Known for driving measurable impact—such as a 6x increase in conversion on a Sky sales flow—he blends user-centred UI craft with pragmatic engineering practices. His career spans sustained contracts at design-forward studios (ustwo, MOO) and technical leadership roles (Technical Director at Critter Earth, Lead Engineer at Covéa), showing comfort from prototype to production. Based in the UK with a BA in English Literature from Lancaster, he brings clear communication and a product-minded perspective often missing in purely technical hires. As a freelancer he pairs rapid iteration with coaching and testing discipline to help teams ship reliable, high-converting interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts English Literature, Bachelor of Arts English Literature at Lancaster University
Stackoverflow
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80answers
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Github Skills (200)
jsonb10
ui-components10
testing10
visual-studio10
google-maps10
isolation10
api10
html10
d110
json10
storybook-addon10
oracle-db10
nodejs10
svelte10
web-components10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
itsravenous/gaussian-elimination
Aug 2014 - Apr 2016
Javascript implementation of Gaussian elimination algorithm for solving systems of linear equations.
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
equationssolvingjavascriptlinearlinear-equations
itsravenous/Panoptes-Front-End
Oct 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:65 pushes, 17 branches, 1 comment in 11 months
reactvuezooniversefrontendpanoptes
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