Ashley Firth
Global Director Of Engineering at W3C
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAshley Firth is a technology leader and Global Director of Engineering at Octopus Energy with 10 years' experience building and scaling product and platform engineering teams. She built and now leads Octopus's Global Engineering organization, shipping customer sites, internal tools and new products while expanding the company into international markets. With roots in front-end development and a career progression from junior developer to head of engineering, she bridges hands‑on delivery and strategic team growth across front-end, back-end, mobile, design and data-visualisation disciplines. As a W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Invited Expert, she embeds accessibility standards into large-scale product development. Combining a First-Class BA in Interactive Media with early experience as a radio presenter, she brings creative empathy to mission-driven engineering that aims to make renewable energy more affordable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons., Interactive Media Production, First Class Honors, BA Hons., Interactive Media Production, First Class Honors at Bournemouth University
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Github Skills (69)
wcag10
axe10
conventions10
materialize10
styles10
guidelines9
accessibility9
css9
lint9
user-experience9
linting8
effort8
linter8
css-variables8
postcss8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MrFirthy/MrFirthy
Jul 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
MrFirthy/mrfirthy.github.io
May 2015 - Feb 2025
The source code for my personal site, built using Jekyll/Ruby so content can be written in markdown, and hosted through Github pages.
Contributions:15 PRs, 165 pushes, 8 branches in 9 years 11 months
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