Joined Next as a trainee developer
Started as a graduate developer, learning professional delivery, retail engineering, and the fundamentals of building at scale.
Experience
From graduate developer to Lead Developer at Next.
I joined Next in June 2019 as a trainee graduate developer and have progressed into a Lead Developer role, specialising in frontend development and platform-minded retail delivery.
Grew through the engineering track
Built frontend depth across browse and shop experiences, team delivery, shared platform work, and the habits needed to maintain long-lived systems.
Lead Developer
Focused on frontend architecture, platform thinking, developer experience, and helping teams ship reliable customer-facing journeys.
Total Platform
Multi-brand retail journeys on shared foundations.
A major part of my work has been helping facilitate Next's Total Platform offering: a multi-tenancy setup that supports customer-facing retail websites across multiple businesses.
My own work has focused on frontend browse and shop areas across those sites, alongside modernisation projects that move capability away from a legacy monolith and toward independent microservices.
Total Platform
Shared storefront foundations
Brand configuration
Browse and shop areas
Independent micro-service boundaries
Retail Reach
Customer-facing work across recognisable brands.
Different storefronts, brand rules, markets, browse pages, and shop experiences, all needing to sit on shared platform foundations without feeling generic to the people using them.
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FATFACE
Frontend specialism
Turning product requirements and brand needs into maintainable customer-facing interfaces.
Modernisation work
Helping move parts of a legacy monolith toward independent microservices with clearer ownership and delivery paths.
Delivery leadership
Helping translate ambiguity into practical implementation paths for teams and stakeholders.
Platform quality
Caring about performance, accessibility, maintainability, and the developer experience behind the scenes.