Nicolas Gallagher

Front-End Web Developer & CSS Hacker

Website
http://nicolasgallagher.com
Email

About me

Freelance Front-End Web Developer who has worked on projects for some of London's biggest web agencies and online organisations, including: ASOS, Central Office of Information, National Health Service, Arthritis Research UK, London 2012, Royal Mail, and UCL.

I'm active in the web development community, a core developer for HTML5 Boilerplate, co-creator of Normalize.css, and co-founder of Oodeals.

Expertise

Professional capabilities

Technical skills

Experience

Web Worker

at Nicolas Gallagher Ltd.

September 2010–Present

Freelance front-end developer working with web agencies and independent companies to create modern, accessible, scalable, and robust websites. Active contributor to Open Source projects.

Product Designer / Co-founder

at Oodeals

December 2010–Present

Responsible for Product Design and Front-End Development. Git, jQuery, CakePHP.

UI Developer (Freelance)

at Lyst

August 2011–September 2011

Worked with the Lyst team to rapidly plan and create reusable, responsive, front-end components for a redesign that launched in time for New York Fashion Week. Git, Less, Django.

UI Developer (Freelance) for ASOS Marketplace

via Profero

October 2010–June 2011

Core team member delivering front-end components. Agile development (Scrum), Mercurial, .NET MVC environment.

Front-End Developer

as Freelancer

February 2010–September 2010

Freelance front-end developer working on short- and long-term contracts. Worked at agencies including Skive, The Tin, BCL, Gyro.

Senior Interface Developer

at Reading Room

January 2008–January 2010

Lead front-end developer, internal and client-facing accessibility expert and UX consultant. Author of Reading Room’s Coding Standards for Interface Developers document. Advised on the appropriate use of open source software, decentralised content, and “social media”.

Work

Articles

Education

Goldsmiths College, University of London

MA (Distinction), Social Anthropology

2005–2006

University of Cambridge

MA, Biological Anthropology

2001–2005

Wellington College

Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, Further Maths (5 A's)

1997–2001