Ross Mackay
About
I’m a London based web developer, specialising in front-end, with full-stack, product and hardware experience, usually working between the fast-paced worlds of agencies and product startups. I’m happiest writing clean, functional code powering seamless user experiences.
These days I’m usually writing React (+ redux etc) or node commercially, but I’ve got experience integrating with and prototyping in wide range of stacks/languages.
Contact
website: rossmackay.co
email: ross@rossmackay.co
Contracts only - preferrably React, no Angular or Wordpress.
Work
Contracting (2015 - Present)
Clients:
YunoJuno (HQ)
Replatforming a hard-coded gatsby site to be CMS driven.
Skills: React, Gatsby.js, Contentful (headless CMS)
Moving Brands
Building a marketing site for a california based electric vehicle company.
Skills: React, Gatsby.js, sanity.io (headless CMS), Serverless framework, Styled components
Huge
Leading a team to build the first stages of a digital publishing platform for a major entertainment franchise.
Skills: React (SSR), GraphQL, Node, Contentful (headless CMS), Jest, CSS Modules
Moteefe
Building components for use across the clients ecommerce and marketing platforms.
Skills: React, Jest, Styled components
Ekino
Building a financial dashboard powered by a modular CMS, integrating with both new and legacy APIs.
Skills: React, Component-driven development
Beamly
Building the platform to power the next generation of marketing sites for a range of household beauty & fragrance companies.
Skills: Node, Chai, Cucumber
StinkDigital
Creating cutting-edge digital experiences including a digital treasure-trail housed in a web-based OS and a webGL + AI-powered fashion designer.
Skills: React, Redux, websockets, adapting projects for installations, OS.js
2PAx
Built both the prototype and v1 of a real-time restaurant management platform.
Skills: React, Redux, websockets, Stripe
Instinctif Partners
Both redeveloping a legacy site whilst creating a component-library for use in microsites.
Skills: ES6, Jekyll, Wordpress
Unmade
Creating and standardizing the component library for use across marketing & ecommerce.
Skills: ES6, CSS, Static-site generators, accessible & responsive design
The Rumpus Room
Building large scale innovative campaigns for clients such as the UN, sporting celebreties and musicians. Rapid prototyping of campaigns in conjunction with creatives.
Skills: React, Redux, prototyping
The Telegraph
Developed a tool for journalists to enrich articles with contextual information, with similar tools now used by many big name digital news sites.
Skills: React, Bootstrap, UX, prototyping
WhatLeadsTo (03 - 06/2015)
Built the early stages of a platform to help charities and business better measure and report their social impact. Worked closely with designers and stakeholders to rapidly prototype and test features.
Skills: React, Node, MongoDB, Product design
Kota Creative (03 - 09/2014)
Led development on a host of websites for clients in the hospitality sector.
Skills: Front-end, Wordpress
FuelStory / Converge Collective (03 - 09/2013)
Worked on the rebranding and strategy for a rapidly growing London coworking space and prototyped a number of small apps and websites, handling everything from design to competitor research and market analysis.
Skills: Prototyping, Front-end, Design, Research
Education
BA Digital Media Design (2012 - 2015)
London College of Communication
Skills: Creative coding, hardware, motion graphics, 3D, video editing
Interactive Media (2010 - 2012)
South Nottingham College
Skills: Web development & design, animation, video production