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.

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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

  • EO Charging logo

    Lead Frontend Developer

    EO Charging

    Sep 2022 — May 2025

  • THRIVE LXP logo

    Senior Product Engineer

    THRIVE LXP

    Jun 2020 — Sep 2022

  • JH logo

    Mid Frontend Developer

    JH

    Mar 2018 — Jul 2020

Selected work

Proof in production.

Case studies are narrative wrappers around constraints — accessibility, architecture, and taste under pressure.

  • 2023—Present

    Co-FounderLead Coachcurriculumproduct

    Front End Now — Career programs

    Next.jsTypeScriptCurriculumSyntax ArenaCode Sandboxadmin toolingCommunity

    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.

    Front End NowCase study

  • 2022—2025

    Lead Frontend Developer

    EO Charging — EO Cloud

    ReactTypeScriptMicro-frontendsMapsDashboardsAccessibility

    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.

    EO CloudCase study

  • 2020—2022

    Senior Product Engineer

    THRIVE LXP — Learning Platform

    ReactMUITypeScriptDesign systemsTestingAccessibility

    Owned UI strategy for a large learning platform — component libraries spanning multiple apps, bespoke/MUI hybrids, and accessibility leadership across teams.

    ThriveCase study

  • 2026—Present

    Co-founderproduct & frontend

    Inkwarden — AI writing companion

    Next.jsTypeScriptAIWriting toolsWorldbuilding

    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.

    InkwardenCase study

  • 2026

    Designfrontendcontent

    Hashton.dev — portfolio site

    Next.js 15React 19TypeScriptTailwind CSSFramer MotionMDX

    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.

    SiteCase study

  • 2026

    Creatormaintainer

    Lucid — accessibility auditing CLI

    TypeScriptPlaywrightaxe-coreCLICIGitHub Issues

    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.

    npmCase study

Contact

Say hello — roles, contracts, or consulting.

Tell me what you're building, the role or engagement type, and your timeline. Short briefs beat polished vagueness.

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