🌍 Bristol, UK & Isle of Man 🇮🇲

I'm a tech optimist who loves to solve challenging problems and craft beautiful user experiences. I thrive on new challenges and refining processes to deliver elegant solutions.

A proven collaborator, I'm motivated by opportunities to learn from exceptional individuals and make meaningful contributions.

I relocated to the Isle of Man in May 2022 to support my partner's role with the Manx Wildlife Trust and have been hybrid working since then.

When not at work I love music, the great outdoors, playing sport and learning new programming languages. 🎛️🥾🏉🤓

Full-Stack Web Developer @ Lunar

• Email: will_leighton@outlook.com
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn
• Portfolio/Website: Portfolio

Here is broad but not exhaustive overview of my skills and experience over the years as a developer. Feel free to ask me about anything you can see here or indeed anything not listed. I'm always open to sharing knowledge and experience!

💻🦀🐘📊 Languages:

🛠️💅 Frameworks, Platforms and Libraries

🧰 Tools:

⚙️⚓ DevOps

• Description: Technical Lead for large multinational website launch. The top tech recruiter in the APAC region required several multifaceted software integrations. Working in a global team with parties in the UK, India the US and Australia. Wordpress template site enriched with react compontents.  
• Link: Website 
• 2023 - Ongoing

• Description: Fully decoupled, headless Next.JS app on Wordpress backend using a GraphQL interface.
• Link: Website 
• 2023

• Description: Online radio station where I also occasionaly host under the moniker Safe Hands
• Link: Link
• 2023

• Position: Full Stack Developer
• Duration: September 2024 - Present

• Position: Senior Developer
• Duration: June 2021 - Present
• Responsibilities:
  • Delivering fast, responsive, secure web applications, marquee projects, site integrations and new features to spec and on time with maintainable code.
  • Developing new products, in house plugins, software integrations, composer packages, complex frontend applications on a headless CMS
  • Designing REST API’s, tooling / stack architecture and client facing CMS.
  • Providing technical expertise, problem solving and project planning.
  • Facilitating collaboration between inhouse and contracted developers, project managers and clients.

• Position: Web Developer
• Duration: December 2020 - September 2024
• Responsibilities:
  • Building fast, responsive websites with maintainable code using an existing workflow consisting of wordpress, SCSS, gulp and Github.
  • Interpreting designs from Adobe XD and photoshop.
  • Testing websites for responsiveness, performance, SEO and QA.
  • Maintaining legacy sites (php, jQuery, CSS)

• Position: Coding Fellowship Graduate
• Duration: September 2020
• Curriculum Intensive and project-driven 12 week software development course using a webstack • Taught by industry professionals using best practice approaches.

• Position: Technical Theatre and Live Events Specialist
• Duration: 2016 - January 2020
• Responsibilities: Providing technical know-how and managing production for live events for in-house shows, midscale tours and West End productions.