I specialise in audiovisual programming on the Web. I write mainly modern JavaScript, but also Python, SASS, C++, Swift and Rust. My past clients include Around, greyworld and XL Recordings.
Some notable projects are below (more available on GitHub):
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Pikala
I have designed and developed the new website for Pikala, a Moroccan non-profit using bicycles to promote sustainable mobility, education and social progress in a number of Moroccan cities.
I developed a new visual language based on the existing Pikala brand, which is suitable for both digital and print publications (e.g. the new Pikala Cafe menu). The website itself is a performant statically generated site with GitHub acting as the CMS.
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Ecosia
I've spent 4 years at Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees. I initially focused on transforming a legacy monolithic application into a modern microservice system fronted by performant Vue-based web applications. After completing this multi-year process, I helped conceive and execute a reorganisation into three specialised Search teams. I took on technical leadership of the new Rich Content team, which uses large datasets, query understanding and context-sensitive user interfaces to answer more of our users' queries, and answer them better. I co-led the org-wide rebranding project and co-authored the new Frontend technical strategy. In my last few months, I built a specialised in-house web app framework called Taproot, which will make the Ecosia search experience more performant, future-proof and give the engineering teams profound control over theit applications.
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Atrament
Atrament is a library for drawing and handwriting on the HTML canvas. Its goal is for drawing to feel natural and comfortable, and the result to be smooth and pleasing.
- GitHub (1300+ stars as of March 2024)
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Calculating Control (2021)
I developed the web application for Calculating Control: (NetArt and Cybernetics) exhibition by the Berlin-based Zentrum für Netzkunst. The Vue-based single-page application was designed by Anna Lorenz and consisted of a living archive of research materials collected by the ZfN members, with Zotero serving as the backend API.
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Wellcome.ac.uk
My first project at the Wellcome Trust was the redesign of the corporate website. I worked closely with UI and UX designers, content editors and management to create a performant and clean front-end experience. I then focused on refactoring the legacy PHP backend and creating a modular UI system for the site.
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Wellcome Interactive Charts
For the annual Wellcome funding report, we decided to create reusable interactive chart modules, which would improve accessibility and increase transparency in publishing our funding data.
I created a custom SVG-based rendering library along with a standard JSON schema for the chart data. All charts were rendered with additional markup for screen readers. I also built a web-based tool for content editors to create chart data from CSV files or manually.
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Mosaic
In 2017 I was the principal developer on a full redesign and re-engineering of Mosaic, Wellcome's longreads publication on health, culture and society. We used an unconventional technology stack with a Drupal backend serving as a publishing service, and the site itself being rendered onto Amazon S3 using Dockerized rendering services, SQS and Terraform.
The site itself was given a fresh look, improved accessibility, performance and ever-changing generative design elements throughout.
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Meyda
Audio feature extraction library for the Web Audio API that I built with Hugh Rawlinson and Nevo Segal. Featured in proceedings of the 1st Web Audio Conference at IRCAM and Mozilla, Paris. Watch the WAC talk here.
