Rob Easthope

Civic Space / Lead front end developer & architect

October 2023 – February 2024 • contract

• Architected, designed, and built the front end of the Civic Space prototype web app.
• Working closely with a small team of developers, I integrated satellite imagery and data visualisation elements into a user-friendly interface, that met the specific needs of civil society organisations while balancing development time constraints.
• The core of the app utilised React, Remix, and Mapbox technologies to enhance the application’s functionality.
• One of the key focuses during the development process was data and API security. The team took extensive measures to ensure that user data was protected at all times.
• To avoid vendor lock-in and ensure data security, we made use of open source libraries and self-hosted solutions.

Parallel / Senior front end developer

August  – November 2023 • contract

• Sole developer working on the development of the OVO Energy Dashboard for the COP28, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
• Built using the React Remix framework and the Recharts D3.js based charting library to create visualisations using a bespoke graphing library.
• All content was stored in a bespoke Sanity CMS component based system to allow granular content changes in the future.

More Air / Lead front end developer

July  – August 2023 • contract

• Rapid and time-sensitive build of a site for Cobot, a US robotics start up, to announce their Series A funding round and spur further funding initiatives.
• Build with React using the Remix framework, Sanity CMS, styled with Tailwind, and extensively animated with Framer Motion.

Founders Factory / Senior front end developer

May  – June 2023 • contract

• Returned to the Founders Factory site working the design, marketing, and tech teams to add more UI components.
• Upgraded the core architecture to use modern web technologies.
• Restyled the entire site to a new revamped design.

Browser Group / Lead front end developer

January  – March 2023 • permanent

• Promoted to Lead Front End Developer with duties to provide technical analysis to directors and plan project architecture.
• Made initial moves to overhaul developer tooling, developer processes, and hiring.
• Continued to work on front end projects for Aalto and Ohealio.

Browser Group / Senior front end developer

May 2022 – January 2023 • permanent

• Built and architected both the Ohealio and Aalto projects.
• Both projects made extensive use of Next.js, Typescript, Sanity headless CMS, and Storybook.
• Hired, interviewed, and managed freelance developers to support projects.
• Also worked on the legacy projects using Laravel, Vue.js 2.0, and GraphQL.

Browser Group / Senior front end consultant

April  – May 2022 • contract

Consulted on plans for the front end architecture and rough development estimates for Browser Group’s upcoming health e-commerce project.

My Art Broker / Senior front end developer

March  – April 2022 • contract

• Worked on post-launch updates and bug fixes on the My Art Broker site built upon Next.js and Sanity CMS.
• Integrated Turborepo tooling to solve the build time speed issues.

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