Dan Furze

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Hello, I’m Dan Furze.I’m a software engineer and consultant from the UK.

I have over professional experience in front-end development and now provide freelance development and consultancy — helping teams collaborate and work better together, streamline workflow, and deliver quality websites and applications.

I’ve spent my career so far at software companies and in some of the top digital agencies in the UK. I have worked on huge scale, multi-lingual, content-managed platforms for companies around the world.

I currently live in the the UK and can travel or work remotely where required. I’m looking for front-end development and consultancy work for digital agencies or companies building their own products.

My expertise is in:

  • HTML: templating languages, style guides, pattern libraries, prototyping
  • CSS: Sass, Less, PostCSS
  • JavaScript: ES6+, React, Redux, Flux, React Native, Angular
  • Accessibility: testing, audits, education and improvement
  • Team management: code standards and best practises, training, consultation, hiring
  • Workflow: Git, automation, testing, continuous integration and delivery

Read about my recent experience on my CV or LinkedIn.

Services and availability

With over 10 years of experience in coding, I have now refined my skill set and concentrate on improving standards, quality, and communication within teams.

While I still get hands-on to code and develop websites and web applications my focus is now consulting on technical management and helping teams collaborate and work better together to streamline workflow and improve delivery.

Services

Technical direction, front-end development, consultation.

Technologies

JS, ES6+, React, Redux, Angular, HTML, CSS.

Workflow

Git, automation, testing, continuous integration and delivery.

Partners and friends

A handful of the amazing businesses and teams I’ve worked with in my career so far.

BMW
Booking.com
Celebrity Cruises
Equal Experts
GE
Macmillan Cancer Research
RentalCars.com
Universal Orlando

Case studies

A selection of my recent experience. These case studies delve into the technical detail of the projects and products that I’ve worked on, the companies and people that I’ve helped and what I learned from the experience.

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Booking.com Trips Unit

  • Date Feb 2019 - now
  • Location On-site, remote: Manchester + Amsterdam
  • Technologies: Webpack, NPM, React, Next

One month working on re-platforming a legacy in-house Angular app to a React/Next.JS application for the customer service team.

One year in the Front-end Developer Experence team, building centralised front-end workflow tools to be distributed across 7 teams of multi-disciplinary engineers, to…

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Rainmaker Solutions

  • Date Mar - Jun 2018 + Feb 2019
  • Location Remote: London + Bristol
  • Technologies: Sass, JavaScript, React

My latest fully remote role was consulting with Rainmaker, their project teams and London-based clients. I worked on refactoring and restructuring projects that they are bringing in from 3rd-party partners in order to scale and maintain them.

This involved taking on the front-end lead role on behalf…

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Dept UK

  • Date Jul - Oct 2018
  • Location On-site: Manchester + Amsterdam
  • Technologies: Sass, JavaScript, React, Redux

I was brought in to Dept (UK) for a contract role after having previously worked with them (as Building Blocks) in a permanent position.

My job here was to take over and help lead a project that had been in progress for some time, and to refactor and help finish the work.

Collaborating both remotely…

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Want to work together?

I’m always up for new challenges where I can collaborate with people and companies to realise their products. Don’t be a stranger, say hello!

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