Me
- Name
- Katie Ball
- Job
- Consultant Front-end Architect
- Status
- For hire
- Location
- Leeds, UK
- Skills
-
- Front-end Architecture
- Design
- Development
- OOCSS
- Performance
- Responsive Web Design
- Speaking
- Writing
- Git
- Vim
- Agile
Job
- Title
- Front-end Architect
- Location
- Worldwide
- Services
-
- Consultancy
- Training
- Speaking
- Workshops
- Development
- Advisory
CSS Wizardry
- Company
- CSS Wizardry Ltd.
- Title
- Consultant Front-end Architect
- From
- October, 2013
- To
- Present
- Responsibilities
-
- Consultancy
- Speaking
- Workshops
- Development
- Notes
- After years of continued open-source
contributions, publication of articles, speaking, workshops, and
working in varied organisations, I decided, in 2013, to turn CSS
Wizardry into my full time job. I am working to help agencies,
product teams and individuals write better quality front-end
code for faster, leaner and more scalable products. I am doing
this through a combination of workshops, talks and consultancy.
BSkyB
- Company
- British Sky Broadcasting
- Title
- Senior UI Developer
- From
- March, 2011
- To
- October, 2013
- Responsibilities
-
- Build
- Front-end Architecture
- Front-end Performance
- Scalability
- Mobile Development
- Training
- Developer Relations
- Progressive Enhancement
- Design Rationalisation
- Notes
- Working solo in a large team
of software engineers, I was responsible for the front-ends of some
of Sky’s largest and most profitable online products. I worked to
provide in-house tools and frameworks, as well as code standards,
to enable the larger team to construct front-ends. I also focused
heavily front-end performance, scalability, architecture and
maintainability.
Venturelab
- Company
- Venturelab UK Ltd.
- Title
- Web Developer
- From
- January, 2010
- To
- March, 2011
- Responsibilities
-
- Design
- Build
- UX
- UI
- IA
- Accessibility
- Progressive Enhancement
- Notes
- Working as lead front-end
developer in a VC’s dedicated web team. I was responsible for
the build of websites as well as taking the company toward a
progressive enhancement, design-in-the-browser and lean
development approach.
Sense Internet
- Company
- Sense Internet
- Title
- Web Developer
- From
- July, 2008
- To
- January, 2010
- Responsibilities
-
- Design
- Build
- UX
- UI
- IA
- Accessibility
- Designing in the browser
- Progressive Enhancement
- Notes
-
I secured my first full-time role at Sense
Internet when I was 17. It was working here that taught me
vital team-working skills as well as providing me with
real-world industry/agency experience.
CSS Wizardry
- Website
- csswizardry.com
- Launched
- 2007
- Notes
-
Through CSS Wizardry I have written hundreds
of articles, released open-source code, spoken at international
conferences, run workshops and a lot more. It has become a
strong personal brand and is known in the industry as a source
of high-quality writing around the subjects of CSS architecture,
performance and more.
Qualifications
- A-Levels
- 3
- GCSEs
- 13