Nice to meet you.

I’m Sami Capaldi, a Frontend Developer based in Manchester. With over 12 years of design and development experience in freelance, agency, and in-house roles, I've worked across both B2B and B2C sectors. I have a keen eye for detail, consistently delivering solid results from the initial pitch through to the final product. I strongly believe in personal development, continuously pushing myself to learn more and experiment with new approaches. This mindset enables me to select the most suitable tools for each project from a wide range of technologies, as well as to think creatively when solving problems. In addition to frontend development, I am also a Certified Adobe Professional and an Email Marketing expert. Outside of my career and passion projects, I am a lover of all things creative from art to music and can often be found producing music or creating illustrations.

Experience

Lead Frontend Developer at Webtex Limited

My role at Webtex Limited was client based, I had the opportunity to create projects from the ground up as well as assist on established projects. During my time here I worked on websites and software alike. Web work was a mix of monolithic and headless/jamstack architectures, from traditional Wordpress websites to feature rich Headless sites. Software projects engaged problem-solving abilities but also deepened my knowledge in full-stack development., something that I am keen to build on.

2023-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 - 2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Frontend Developer at Tribus

During my role at Tribus, I was exposed to both client facing and in-house projects. My role centred around working with other teams to create frontend services for both software suites and websites. Web work was a mix of traditional Wordpress websites but also building custom CMS's and frontend experiences using a variety of technologies. On the software side of things I was involved in developing new features from designs, improving on existing modules and of course bug fixing.

2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 - 2023-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Freelance Developer at Freelance

During the pandemic I was freelancing working with a variety of clients as well as contracting at Webtex Limited. This time allowed me to not only expand on my skillset but also allowed me to have a varied workload. Most of my work during this time was centred around Websites, e-commerce solutions and creating applications for small businesses to help weather the non-contact era we were in.

2020-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 - 2022-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Frontend Developer at 15below

My role at 15below was centred around the travel industry, creating travel communications software and tools. During this time I was responsible for creating dynamic email and text communications for some of the largest airline and travel companies in the world. As well as assisting on frontend development of the software that clients used for managing their communications and push notifications.

2017-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 - 2020-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

Frontend and Mobile Developer at i-studentgroup

At i-studentgroup, my role was to design and develop websites and mobile applications for the education sector. The apps I developed during my time at i-studentgroup we to be used by new students as their handbooks and guides to the universities they were studying at. Features included realtime and seasonal weather, upcoming events and important information around their studies. Whilst I was at i-studentgroup, I was given the opportunity to refactor the technology used to create these applications - this opportunity really sparked my interest in Javascript frameworks over native codebases for mobile applications.

2017-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 - 2017-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Projects & Tech

SwiperJS

7

JavaScript

7

Jest

6

TailwindCSS

6

SASS

5

Vercel

5

Figma

5

GraphQL

5

GSAP

5

Apollo

4

Github Actions

4

Vite

4

CSS

4

WordPress

3

NextJS

3

HTML

3

Hubspot

2

Bitbucket Pipelines

2

Framer

2

Webpack

2

PHP

2

Faust

2

Bootstrap

2

Klaviyo

2

Shopify

2

ReactJS

2

NodeJS

1

TypeScript

1

Statamic

1

MariaDB

1

Supabase

1

Axios

1

Nodemailer

1

Babel

1

VueJS

1

RedwoodJS

1

Hydrogen Shopify

1

Personal Development

CI/CD

Sketch

Premiere Pro

InDesign

XD

Illustrator

Photoshop

Adobe CC

Payload CMS

Strapi

Sanity

MySQL

MongoDB

Miscellaneous

Build

Testing

Deployment Tools

CMS & Marketing Tools

Database

Data Handling

Design Tools

Development Tools

Laravel

Gatsby

Chakra

Ant Design

Material Design

Framework7

Frontend