Phil Armstead

Senior Frontend Engineer

Prestwich, Manchester
PhilArmstead

Professional summary

Award-winning full-stack web developer with over 12 years' agency and in-house experience, having worked for some of the biggest brands and musical artists in the world.

Meticulous and hard-working, I strive for creative and efficient solutions in all endeavours, whether it's writing software, creating Node apps or turning a designer's mock-up in to a pixel-perfect page.

Key skills

HTML and JavaScript. I still consider those to be key skills. This section used to be a dispassionate list of every technology I'd ever used but, by now, it's become excessive. At heart, I'm a front-end developer. I love making websites. I made this with Web Components and TypeScript, but it could just as easily have been done in Vue, Svelte or vanilla JS.

Just for fun

80% Linux, Steam% Windows
Bash, Python automator

C, C++, Assembly tinkerer
Raspberry Pi experimenter

Most recent interest: disassembling video games and writing old-school trainers for them (sans the music)

Interests

I like to spend my free time playing video games, reading books or keeping fit. My favourite game is Final Fantasy VII, my favourite book is To Kill a Mockingbird and my fastest 5k is 21:22. In the future I'd like to complete some sort of outdoor expedition (Tough Mudder, Go Ape etc.) and implement my own artificial neural network.

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25/10/2001