Storm is available for hire

Storm Farrell

Verified Expert in Engineering

Front-end Developer

Location

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Toptal Member Since

February 24, 2015

Storm is a front-end developer with 8+ years of experience and a focus on UX. To that end, he has honed his skills in writing succinctly, producing clean and efficient code, and building intuitive products. He gets excited when talking about web apps vs. websites and believes that his value stems from the impact he can have on his client’s customers. He’s available to work on front-end projects with a focus on UI, JavaScript, and React.

Front-end User Interface (UI)User Experience (UX)CSS HTML5 Bootstrap WordPress Sass GraphQL Apollo Web Design Git React Next.js Prisma

Portfolio

Alchemy + Aim

PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, WordPress

Firing Squad

Git, WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

Freelance

WordPress, Git, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

Experience

HTML5 - 8 years Front-end - 8 years CSS - 8 years JavaScript - 4 years User Experience (UX) - 3 years ECMAScript (ES6) - 3 years Gatsby - 2 years React - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Webpack, Git, Atom, OS X

The most amazing...

...thing I've built is a payment platform for rental deposits (see mietwise.com).

Work Experience

Designer + Technical Lead

2015 - 2016

Alchemy + Aim

Built and maintained the base framework for all custom projects.
Interviewed and assisted new staff during onboarding.
Built a large number of the company's flagship projects.
Contributed to major business decisions regarding the company's direction.
Put together systems to standardize the project workflow among devs.

Technologies: PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, WordPress

Web Designer

2014 - 2015

Firing Squad

Built a donation site with rankings where users could nominate people to partake.
Created a forum and community engagement website for a major energy drink.
Set the internal standard for coding practices and frameworks used by other developers in the company.
Managed projects, client expectations, deadlines, and collaboration with external developers and designers.
Built a showcase and eCommerce website for a high-performance bicycle company.
Built many sites from scratch, through a CMS like WordPress.

Technologies: Git, WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

Web Designer

2010 - 2014

Freelance

Rebuilt a major music blog in South Africa, which resulted in a 1500% increase in traffic.
Designed and built an events calendar that could be maintained via a Google Docs CSV.
Built a recipe database website for a major food brand's product range.
Created a showcase and online order system for a wine company.
Programmed a tool for users to place orders for prints of their Instagram images.

Technologies: WordPress, Git, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

Experience

Mietwise

https://mietwise.com

Landing pages for a startup I'm part of. I built this in React using GatsbyJS. Following the modern development principles of the JAMstack, the site is dynamic but loads in about one second. It's also in two languages and, as it is technically an app, only requires one-page load (the first one).

See performance results here: https://website.grader.com/results/mietwise.com

SimProject

Full UI design and front-end/React development for an app that runs corporation-like project simulations for business students.

The app itself is not publicly accessible, but a walkthrough of my role in the project is available at the link provided.

Nutrition Stripped

http://nutritionstripped.com/

Complete redesign, rebuild, and maintenance over a year for a high-traffic nutrition blog using WordPress. Included a store and a member's area dashboard for controlling access to specific content. Beyond the static front-of-house, it included filterable content, favorites, and downloads directory based on membership level and products purchased.

Coco + Kelley

A redesign and rebuild of a lifestyle blog. Includes pretty standard features, but I hold this as an example of good execution. It includes Ajax-driven content loading and an affiliate store. All content on the site is easily managed via custom fields from the back-end.