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Aron Buckley-Smith Lead Frontend Developer | React, TypeScript, NodeAB

Aron Buckley-Smith

Lead Frontend Developer | React, TypeScript, Node
  • Suggested rate
    £600 / day
  • Experience8-15 years
  • Response time1 hour
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Manchester, United Kingdom
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
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Skill set
Aron in a few words
Experienced Senior Frontend Developer specialising in React, TypeScript, and full-stack scalable web architectures. Proven ability to build high-performance platforms and optimise user experiences. Expertise in component libraries, design systems, monorepos, and serverless architectures.

Passionate about creating high-quality user interfaces that improve business workflows and engagement. Dedicated to mentoring teams, optimising developer processes, and implementing scalable testing strategies. Skilled in collaborating across teams to deliver accessible, performant, and impactful digital solutions.
Experience
  • Ice Travel Group
    Senior Frontend Developer
    E-COMMERCE
    April 2024 - September 2024 (6 months)
    • Introduced a modular frontend architecture, establishing scalable testing strategies and reusable patterns, reducing technical debt and ensuring a more maintainable codebase across development teams.
    • Redeveloped the Travel Supermarket vehicle rental platform and booking funnel, implementing mobile-first, responsive interfaces with improved search and filter capabilities, while optimising performance and Core Web Vitals to enhance page load speed and Lighthouse scores.
    • Built a component library using React, TypeScript, Radix UI, and Tailwind CSS, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and reusability, with Storybook, Jest, and React Testing Library for documentation and testing.
    React.js Typescript Node.js Storybook Jest React Testing Library Radix UI Tailwind CSS
  • Vypr
    Lead Frontend Developer
    DIGITAL & IT
    November 2023 - February 2024 (4 months)
    Manchester, United Kingdom
    • Led the development of Vypr’s Product Intelligence and Consumer platforms, enabling customers to make better data-driven decisions through real-time insights and advanced targeting capabilities. Built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Mantine, and tested with Vitest, React Testing Library, and Playwright.
    • Implemented a TurboRepo-based monorepo, consolidating product intelligence and consumer platforms, IaC, Lambda functions, utility packages, and a component library, improving developer experience and deployment efficiency through parallel pipeline execution.
    • Developed an AWS Lambda template generator using ESBuild and AWS SAM, automating service scaffolding, bundling, and deployment workflows in a serverless microservices architecture.
    • Optimised the design-to-development workflow, collaborating with the design team to refine handover processes, reducing development cycle times.
    React.js Typescript Serverless AWS CDK Node.js Next.js TurboRepo Vitest React Testing Library Playwright AWS Lambda ESBuild AWS SAM Microservices Mantine CSS3
  • Worth Systems
    Senior Software Engineer
    PUBLIC SECTOR
    June 2023 - November 2023 (6 months)
    • Led the design and development of new features for the UK Research and Innovation funding service, introducing automated validation mechanisms to assess application completeness, enforce funding criteria, and determine eligibility.
    • Applied domain-driven design in an event-driven microservices architecture, leveraging Next.js, TypeScript, Fastify, AWS, Terraform, and Docker.
    • Ensured high code quality through TDD/BDD, static code analysis, and thorough code reviews, ensuring seamless integration, functionality, and GDS compliance.
    React.js Typescript Node.js Domain Driven Design Event-driven architecture Serverless PostgreSQL Docker Fastify Next.js
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Education
  • Computer Science
    Manchester Metropolitan University
    2015