HarryAshton
Contract and consulting frontend work — design systems, component architecture, and production UI for teams that need senior judgment without the overhead. Founder of Frontend Now.
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United Kingdom, remote. 11+ years shipping ui. Open to contract, consulting, or lead/senior roles.
About
Engineer first.
Clarity under pressure.
I'm a senior frontend engineer with a long arc from agency throughput to product leadership: design systems, accessibility engineering, and micro-frontends where teams need guardrails without slowing delivery.
Today I'm focused on contract and consulting frontend work — delivery as a senior individual contributor, sensible architecture, and accessibility engineering teams can sustain. If you need someone who ships and explains trade-offs without theatre, we'll get along.
Where I've worked
Selected work
Proof in production.
Case studies are narrative wrappers around constraints — accessibility, architecture, and taste under pressure.
2023—Present
Lead Coach and Co-FounderFront End Now — Career programs
Co-founded a career program with a full learning platform — Syntax Arena gamified practice, multi-file Code Sandbox, student admin, and coaching systems that help beginners land frontend roles.
2022—2025
Lead Frontend DeveloperEO Charging — EO Cloud
Lead frontend for EO Cloud — fleet charging dashboards, depot maps, SiteOps, and UI libraries across a micro-frontend architecture, with WCAG 2.1 AA governance baked in.
2020—2022
Senior Product EngineerTHRIVE LXP — Learning Platform
Owned UI strategy for a large learning platform — component libraries spanning multiple apps, bespoke/MUI hybrids, and accessibility leadership across teams.
2026—Present
Co-founder, product & frontendInkwarden — AI writing companion
Co-founded Inkwarden — an AI writing companion with connected worlds, character sheets, timeline-aware suggestions, admin tooling, and a calm interface built for long-form fiction.
2026
Design, frontend, contentHashton.dev — portfolio site
This site — a contract-and-consulting portfolio with animated hero, Mux intro video, MDX case studies, dark mode, and a paper-and-ink design system built on Tailwind v4 tokens.
2026
Creator, maintainerLucid — accessibility auditing CLI
Automated accessibility auditing across full web projects — route discovery via sitemap, crawl, or Next.js analysis, axe-core in headless Chromium, JSON reports, and optional GitHub Issue creation.