Zander Martineau
Staff Software Engineer - Head Of Web at Dare
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolZander Martineau is a Staff Software Engineer and Head of Web based in London with 14+ years building front-end and full-stack web products across fintech, healthcare, music, and energy trading. He specialises in the JavaScript ecosystem—React, Next.js, TypeScript and GraphQL—and has a proven track record shipping mission-critical ETRM software and an Electron desktop app. Zander designs and scales component libraries and design systems that tame data-heavy interfaces, boosting consistency, accessibility, and performance across complex applications. He’s pragmatic about AI-assisted development, advocating targeted use of agents to accelerate work without accumulating technical debt. An active contributor to community tooling (notably improving the Raycast extensions’ npm search UX), he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and long-term architectural thinking. Outside work he’s the kind of engineer who cares about the small details that make interfaces usable for the widest possible audience.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Hurtwood House Sixth Form College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
raycast10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
raycasting10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
npm9
apidoc8
api8
nodejs6
react-testing-library6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
Oct 2021 - May 2022
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 4 commits, 9 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Zander contributed significantly to the "Search npm" extension, enhancing its functionality and user experience. Their work included implementing new features like "Copy Package Name" actions and adding links to related resources, such as the npm and bundlephobia pages. Furthermore, the user refactored the extension's codebase by improving code organization and grouping actions for better usability. These changes, along with modifications to the UI components, improved the user experience of the Raycast extensions.
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TryKickoff/Kickoff-snippets
Mar 2012 - May 2017
:rice_ball: Useful snippets for Sublime Text and Atom
Contributions:6 releases, 108 commits, 31 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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