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Freelance Software Developer

Your expert in React, React Native, and JavaScript for building innovative websites and mobile applications

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Building your next iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, or web app from London, UK. Since 2013, I've partnered with individuals, start-ups, and large corporations, turning tech visions into realities. Specialising in React, React Native, and JavaScript, I've assembled and led teams, and catalysed start-up growth leading to acquisitions. My industry engagement includes speaking at React Europe, React Day Berlin, and professional JavaScript based comedy performances with #componentDidSmoosh

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Key Services

  • Mobile app icon

    Build a mobile app

    Got a great idea for an iOS and / or Android app? I can build it!

  • Website icon

    Build a website

    Need a complex web app or new site to promote your products, I can help.

  • Expert icon

    JavaScript / React / React Native dev

    Already have a team or product? Bring me in as an expert consultant.

  • Team icon

    Build a tech team

    Just starting your technical journey? I can start your project and build your team.

Recent Work

  • Stickies mobile app

    Stickies Mobile App

    Helping a web team turn their web3 product into a fully featured iOS and Android app. Involving a lot of image performance optimisation for animated GIF’s, making native Swift and Java changes and ensuring their web team could continue development of the app after I left.

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    WalkUp / Dojo Team Lead

    Building a start-up tech team from 2 people to over 30, whilst helping the company get acquired, managing the transition and handling exponential customer growth. Involved building a real time restaurant queue and booking system for web, iOS and Android.

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    ICIS Mobile / Web Apps

    Building and leading a team of contractors to develop a series of mobile and web apps that share code, handle a lot of data visualisation and are available in multiple languages. For a large client with a big in house team of backend developers.

  • EventsTag logo

    EventsTag

    Helping a small start-up build experiential technology. Primarily built the user interface and printing logic for a photo booth that creates a photo mosaic for an event. Using React, Electron and JavaScript.

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    Additional work

    Since 2013 I’ve been building over 100 websites, iOS, Android, Mac, Windows or backend applications for dozens of clients and companies. Building and leading teams, working as a principle and senior developer and being involved in front and backend development.

  • "Charlie is an incredible engineer but that’s just a drop of the value you get with him. Charlie is creative, a team player and more than anything makes the culture better, always. There’s no higher compliment than that."

    Amos Teshuva - CEO @ WalkUp

  • "We’ve just finished working with Charlie on our first product. He has been beyond awesome"

    Tom Wright - CEO @ Stickies

  • Charlie has saved our bacon more than once, and is an absolute dream to work with! Would definitely recommend hitting him up if you're in need of software development (or troubleshooting!) 💪

    Jenny Weston - Head of Marketing @WYS communications

  • "Charlie is an incredibly talented engineer and leader. He delivers value instantly, through both his wizard-like technical skills and his diverse, successful career history. What amazes me about Charlie is his ability to provide solutions catered to the situation, be it in a startup with tight deadlines or at the enterprise level with strict security requirements. Having Charlie leading your team or building your product is a force multiplier."

    Andy Wooler - Senior Mobile Engineer @ Walkup / ICIS

  • "Charlie is one of the most dedicated and passionate people I've ever met. He is constantly looking to learn and always willing to share his knowledge. It was an absolute pleasure to work with Charlie and would recommend him for any project. Hopefully I'll have the opportunity to work with him again in the future."

    Calum Baines - Engineer @ Reading Room

  • "Working with Charlie is an absolute pleasure. His natural enthusiasm and innovative thinking really adds value to a project and better solutions are created because of his involvement. I hope our paths cross and we can work together again. "

    Phil Wakefield - Project Director @ Reading Room

  • "Working with Charlie was fun, he has a great attitude and enthusiasm for web development and clearly illustrates his skill set through his work. Whilst Charlie was apart of our team he took it on himself to bring new innovative ideas to the table. He would also take time out for members of the team and help them improve there Javascript skills. Great guy with a serious drive for development!"

    Jon Hopely - Head of Frontend Development @ Reading Room

  • "Charlie is a dedicated and talented front end developer. During the time we worked together he was constantly improving his skillset and bringing those improvements to the team and projects he worked on. He'd make a great addition to any team."

    Cameron Wortlehock - Senior Frontend Developer @ Reading Room