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Scott Quested

Principal Frontend Engineer

Principal Frontend Engineer with 15+ years of experience building scalable web platforms, frontend architecture, design systems, and developer tooling across startups, scale-ups, and enterprise environments.

Specialising in React, TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, and modern frontend platform engineering, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, CI/CD automation, developer experience, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Experienced in leveraging agentic coding tools including Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and increase engineering productivity.

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Catena Clearing

Principal Frontend Engineer

  • Leading frontend architecture and engineering standards across React and TypeScript applications.
  • Driving performance, scalability, and developer experience improvements across the frontend platform.
  • Championing AI-assisted and agentic development workflows to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.
  • Collaborating cross-functionally with backend teams to deliver complex apps and dashboards.
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Prima

Senior Frontend Engineer

  • Led migration to a unified design token system, improving UI consistency and scalability across the platform.
  • Optimised CI pipelines, reducing build and validation times by over 30% across multiple services.
  • Automated release workflows, replacing manual deployment processes and improving reliability and cadence.
  • Improved application performance through SSR adoption, component refactoring, and rendering optimisations.
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Util

Lead Frontend Engineer

  • Led frontend development of a new React and TypeScript platform using micro frontends.
  • Implemented design system using Figma and design tokens.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and AWS deployment workflows.
  • Developed shared component library with Storybook and GraphQL integration.
  • Created data visualisations using D3 and Plotly.
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AigenPulse

Senior Frontend Engineer

  • Developed and enhanced React-based frontend features.
  • Refactored components for performance and maintainability.
  • Led design sprints and prototyping with Figma.
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Hastings Direct

Frontend Engineer

  • Maintained and improved customer-facing web applications.
  • Refactored legacy frontend codebases to improve performance.
  • Helped introduce automated release processes.
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The Jamieson Consultancy

Frontend Engineer/Web Designer · Web Manager

  • Managed the day-to-day operations of the marketing and web department.
  • Led and mentored team members while overseeing project delivery and deadlines.
  • Managed internal infrastructure including servers and telephony systems.
  • Oversaw budgets, operational processes, and staff wellbeing initiatives.
  • Delivered websites, e-commerce platforms, and software solutions for UK and international clients.
  • Worked across frontend and backend technologies within a collaborative development team.
  • Contributed to digital marketing, SEO, email marketing, and internal systems architecture projects.
  • Configured and maintained web and mail servers alongside telephony systems.

Freelance Graphic Design and Web Development

Self Employed · Freelance

  • Delivered branding, print, web, and digital solutions for UK and international clients.
  • Designed and developed websites and bespoke systems using PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, and MySQL.
  • Managed projects across branding, rebrands, frontend development, and API integrations.

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