Will Thomson
Senior UX Engineer at Blinkk
Hurn, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWill Thomson is a Senior UX Engineer with nine years of professional experience crafting front-end experiences and leading full-stack teams. He joined Potato as the first hire and helped scale it to 100+, combining hands-on front-end engineering (HTML, Sass, ES6/TypeScript, Angular) with technical leadership, client-facing delivery, and successful seven-figure pitches. At Blinkk he continues to focus on UX-driven engineering, building on earlier senior roles at Yahoo! and the BBC where he delivered high-profile, accessible web experiences and led teams to align with enterprise engineering standards. Will blends rapid prototyping and product-minded thinking with cloud operations experience across GCP, AWS, Heroku and Azure, and is known for creating lightweight processes that earn deep client trust. Based in Hurn, England, he brings a rare mix of agency-scale client management, recruitment experience, and long-term technical stewardship.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computing, 2:1, BSc (Hons), Computing, 2:1 at Bournemouth University
Github Skills (39)
maintenance8
internationalization7
localization7
jinja27
yaml6
cli5
vanilla-javascript4
plugin4
raspberry3
reservation-system3
declarative3
eagle3
parametric3
x-plane3
firebase3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
willthomson/ewan-pi
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
willthomson/willthomson.com
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Will Thomson's personal website
Contributions:53 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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