Tom Whitaker
Senior Frontend Developer at Chook Digital
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Whitaker is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Sydney with eight years of practical experience building user-focused web applications. Trained at General Assembly and grounded in graphic design, he blends visual sensibility with robust front-end engineering to deliver polished, accessible interfaces. His career spans startups and agencies—from freelancing and technical management to recent senior roles at Tactiq and Chook Digital—showing adaptability across product stages and team sizes. Tom has navigated industry shifts, including a redundancy at Thinkmill, and consistently progressed into leadership-facing frontend positions. Comfortable with both independent contracting and collaborative delivery, he brings a pragmatic, design-aware approach to complex UI problems. Outside core work he maintains a developer presence from Sydney, signalling ongoing engagement with the front-end community.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Web Development Web Development, Front End Web Development Web Development at General AssemblyDiploma in Graphic Design Graphic Design, Diploma in Graphic Design Graphic Design at Australian Business Academy: RTO code 88201
English
Github Skills (32)
google-analytics10
charts10
statistics10
web-analytics10
analytics10
privacy9
react8
keystonejs8
nodejs8
cms7
remark7
graphql7
vue6
markdown6
mdx5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tomWritesCode/raspberryCandy
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
A pastel/neon VS Code theme.
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 11 months
vscodevscode-extensionvs-codevscode-themepastel
export-mike/axios-curl-middleware
Feb 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
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