Freelance Product Designer and Developer

Hello, my name is Tim. I am a freelance digital product designer and developer, with 17 years of experience working on digital products as a designer, engineer and manager. I’m originally from London, and now based in Tarragona, Catalonia.

I'm equally happy taking on design or engineering work, but I find that I'm most useful when working on projects which combine my different fields of expertise. Some ways that this has worked well in the past have been:
 

• Working on research or prototyping projects where a mixture of critical, creative, and hands-on technical skills are required.
• Taking on entire projects as a solo designer/developer.
• Acting as ‘glue’ between designers and developers in interdisciplinary teams, helping visual designers with tricky interaction problems, and/or aiding engineers to develop a sensibility for design detail.
• Being an expert technical collaborator or consultant on artistic or research-focused projects
• Being responsible for UX design and research on products with a more ‘technical’ user base.

I'm particularly keen to work on projects which align with my values and commitments to social and environmental justice, and to that end, am happy to offer reduced rates to non-profits, co-operatives and and social enterprises for projects which advance these goals.

In terms of technical skills, I have 17 years of experience working as a full-stack developer with web technologies, including HTML, CSS and Javascript, as well as back-end development with a variety of technologies and languages including Ruby on Rails, Django, Flask. I have also completed projects using React and React Native. I'm committed to test-driven development and good software engineering practices, and have a particular fondness for functional programming techniques. My most frequently used languages are Ruby, Python, Javascript and Rust (although I've also worked on projects with Elixir, Erlang, Scala and Haskell in the past), and have experience with MQTT, Cassandra, Postgres, Cassandra and Kafka, as well as Docker, and git (obviously).

My github profile is at https://github.com/timcowlishaw/