Scott Hutcheson

Scott Hutcheson

Frontend Engineer in Scotland

About

Software Engineer. Excited about working at the intersection of design and development. Interested in design systems, generative art, web3.

Work Experience

2021 — 2022
Remote

Implemented a component system using React, TypeScript, and Stitches. Wrote component usage guidelines, best practices documentation, and visual regression tests.

Working on a collaborative web IDE.

2020 — 2021
Remote

Maintained React apps and Node.js microservices.
Wrote an integration testing system using Jest & Playwright

2018 — 2020
Remote

Lead ‘Dev-UX’, a team of senior Front-end specialists.

Established a component system using React + styled-JSX, and TypeScript. This system is used across customer-facing and internal apps. To complement the component system, I built an interactive component gallery to showcase and document reusable UI components.

Ensured quality by writing unit tests, Typescript, and guidelines on front-end development best-practices.

Used Next.js, GraphQL, and TypeScript to extract micro frontends from a Ruby on Rails monolith.

2017 — 2018
Remote

Built and maintained UIs using Ruby on Rails, SCSS, and React. I was also responsible for creating and reviewing UX/UI mockups and proposals.

2016 — 2017
2013 — 2016
Head of Product at Opinurate
Glasgow

Side Projects

2020

A generative art generator.

Education

2009 — 2013
First Class MA (Hons) International Business at Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh

Achieved a dissertation grade of 75%, in which I studied the implications of Social Media for SME’s.

Spent a year studying at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Volunteering

2013 — 2013
Expedition Leader at First Aid Africa
Kenya

Led three teaching expeditions to rural Kenya. Planned, budgeted, and managed placements for 32 volunteers.

Contact

GitHub
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